Germany, Third Reich. An Air Protection Medal, I Class Miniature United Republic of the 82nd Abegweit Light Infantry

the 82nd Abegweit Light Infantry in 1906

with a 2 mm gold stripe at the outer top and bottom edge

A circular gilded silver medal

1 mm in diameter

The interior features a complete grey-blue cotton twill liner bearing a label stamped with “ABNr

Germany, Third Reich. An Air Protection Medal, I Class Miniature United Republic of the 82nd Abegweit Light Infantry(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