Original Item: This is a factory salesman sample board with 15 WWII German medals. Each medal is connected to the back by string or by prong and the medals are numbered in ink by hand. The board has a fine textured background which shows this was not homemade or a tourist item from the end of the war, but an actual wartime salesman’s sample. Furthermore, all medals date from the late 1930s through 1942. The board does show wear and staining, so this was not an example that spent its life at the factory in storage.
The board consists of the following medals all offered in good to very good condition:
1. RAD Long Service Award (3rd class for 12 years of service).
2. Drivers Proficiency Badge. Silver Class (Kraftfahrbewaehrungsabzeichen)
3. Miniature German Mother’s Cross in Gold
4. War Merit Cross 1st Class with Swords
5. The Return of Memel Commemorative Medal
6. War Merit Cross 2nd Class
7. German Red Cross DRK Medal
8. 1939 Spange to the Iron Cross
9. Iron Cross 2nd Class
10. Wound badge in Black
11. War Merit Badge without swords
12. Narvik Shield
13. West Wall Medal (Deutsches Schutzwall-Ehrenzeichen)
14. Crimea Shield (Krimschild)
15. 1939 War Merit Medal