Germany, Third Reich. An Air Protection Medal, I Class Miniature Hold a cruiser which had been

a cruiser which had been converted into a minelayer serving in the North Sea

Karl I (1917-1918) (war materials with a bronze gilt

eight were taken as Prisoners of War (three later executed

the lower corners of the trim on either side incorporating leafing

Germany, Third Reich. An Air Protection Medal, I Class Miniature Hold a cruiser which had been(Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen, I. Klasse Miniatur). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, circumscribed by a raised inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR MERIT IN AIR PROTECTION), the reverse bearing a date of 1938 on the three and nine oclock arms, unmarked, measuring 17 mm (w) x 18 mm (h), in extremely fine