Germany, Third Reich. A Medal for Merit in Animal Breeding Auction Archive as an award to Freikorps

as an award to Freikorps members for honourable service

woven surfaces are tight and the colours are excellently preserved

at the age of 86 and is buried in Mount Calvary Cemetery

with part of its end having been lost to time

Germany, Third Reich. A Medal for Merit in Animal Breeding Auction Archive as an award to Freikorps(Medaille fr Leistungen in Tierzucht). Constructed of bronze, the obverse bearing a raised German national eagle in flight clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central raised inscription Fr Besondere Leistungen in der Tierzucht (For Exceptional Merit in Animal Breeding), circumscribed by the inscription Der Reichsminister fr Ernhrung und Landwirtschaft (The Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture), unmarked, measuring 64. 4 mm in