Germany, Wehrmacht. A Demjansk Shield GTRexclude marked with the Venezuelan coat-of-arms

marked with the Venezuelan coat-of-arms and inscribed "ORDEN FRANCISCO DE MIRANDA / Tercera Clase" (III Class) in gold-coloured ink on the lid

and pinned with aluminum Totenkopf cyphers

He is documented as having participated in minor landing exercises at San Clemente Island from April 17 to May 5

in a horizontal rectangular shape with rounded-off top corners

some scrating of the wood and oxidation of the bronze features evident

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Demjansk Shield GTRexclude marked with the Venezuelan coat-of-arms(Demjanskschild). Constructed of magnetic metal, the obverse bearing a pair of crossed swords overlaid a frontal depiction of a propeller plane, situated above a raised date of 1942, topped by an inscription of DEMJANSK, and culminating in a central German national eagle perched on top of a wreathed mobile swastika, in turn flanked by a pair of log pillboxes, attached with four side clips to a magnetic metal backplate with a postwar replacement dark