Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Awards for Military and Civil Service Archive Both the top and bottom

Both the top and bottom edges of the cap band are trimmed with lengths of white wool piping

a Period Photo Album (containing 173 black and white photographs

Footnote: Jan Stašek was born in 1907 in the town of Kunovice

Also known as the "EOD Badge" or "Crab"

maker marked with LDO code “L/52” for C

Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Awards for Military and Civil Service Archive Both the top and bottom(Auszeichnungen). A mixed lot of awards, including: 1. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, constructed of silvered zink, consisting of Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with an integral hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting an integral catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 4 for Steinhauer & Lck, Ldenscheid,