Germany, SS. A Rare Waffen-SS Latvian Legion Arm Shield Auction Klasse 1914)

Klasse 1914)

#9&10: Förste reviewing troops

comprising 7 headshots of Croatian airmen

Footnote: Kiribati is known by its British colonial name of the “Gilbert Islands”

In September – October later that year

Germany, SS. A Rare Waffen-SS Latvian Legion Arm Shield Auction Klasse 1914)(rmelschild der lettischen Freiwilligen der Waffen SS). Of multi piece construction, consisting of an off white cotton twill base, overlaid on the obverse by a layer of maroon cotton till, defaced by a diagonal off white tresse in representation of a Latvian national emblem, topped by a black bare bearing a printed white inscription of LATVIJA, unmarked, measuring 50 mm (w) x 65 mm (h), a scarce domestically produced variant in uniform removed and