Italy, Kingdom. An Honour Badge of Italian Personnel Training in Germany, Silver Grade GTRexclude Footnote: The Sociedad Económica de

Footnote: The Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País was instituted in 1792 as a learned society to  promote agriculture

His father was a Metal Burnisher before he enlisted for war service in WWI with the British forces and was killed in action in 1915

with riveted eagle (in silvered tombac)

printed on Agfa postcard paper and bearing a Wuppertal-Elberfeld studio mark

Fallschirmjäger/Paratrooper’s loyalty award (Fallschirmjägertreuekette)

Italy, Kingdom. An Honour Badge of Italian Personnel Training in Germany, Silver Grade GTRexclude Footnote: The Sociedad Económica deConstructed of a silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a pair of crossed swords, superimposed over oak leaves, and overlaid by a central fasces defaced by a mobile swastika, the reverse featuring an off centre crimped disc accommodating a vertical pinback, unmarked, measuring 50. 00 mm (w) x 31. 37 mm (h), weighing 11. 8 grams, an unusually well preserved example of a rare badge in near extremely fine condition.