Germany, Third Reich. A Sudetenland Medal GTRexclude in silver gilt presenting a

in silver gilt presenting a five armed decoration in red enamels with ball finials and a silver leaf between each quadrant

was held up by a strong enemy position surrounded by wire and from which a large number of stick grenades were being thrown

but rather for the importance of its material

the helmet measures 187 mm (w) x 278 mm (h)

in silver (impressed 990

Germany, Third Reich. A Sudetenland Medal GTRexclude in silver gilt presenting a(Sudetenland Medaille). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original parade mounted ribbon with a horizontal pinback and field grey wool reverse liner, the obverse bearing two raised figures one of which is clutching a flag and the other a length of broken chain, above a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central date of 1. OKTOBER 1938, circumscribed by an inscription of EIN