Germany, Federal Republic. An Anti-Partisan Badge, Gold Grade Collector’s Example, by Rudolf Souval, c.1980 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac silver star on its original

silver star on its original ribbon with brooch pinback

He joined the SS in 1935 and successfully trained to become an officer

mounted to a fire gilt bronze base

Instituted on 24 May 1869

A rare and highly desirable award finely made in gold with delicately worked red

Germany, Federal Republic. An Anti-Partisan Badge, Gold Grade Collector’s Example, by Rudolf Souval, c.1980 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac silver star on its original(Bandenkampfabzeichen in Gold, Museumsstck). Constructed of gilded bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by an additional cluster of oak leaves defaced by a raised skull and crossbones, overlaid by a sword bearing a sunwheel style mobile swastika, plunging into a hydra, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of a