Prussia, Kingdom. An Infantry Pickelhaube Helmet Plate Newly Listed The 17th SS Panzer Grenadier

The 17th SS Panzer Grenadier Division was tasked with reducing the Allied beachhead after the landing in Normandy

in their paper packets of issue

and 2500 motored vehicles from the Germans

the stitching on the left cuff having come away

Prussia, Kingdom. An Infantry Pickelhaube Helmet Plate Newly Listed The 17th SS Panzer GrenadierConstructed of bronze, a crowned eagle with outstretched wings, the cipher FR lays in the centre of its chest and a banner inscribed with MIT GOTT FR KOENIG UND VATERLAND (WITH GOD FOR KING AND FATHERLAND) lays across the entire body, the left talon clutches a sceptre and the right clutches a globus cruciger, the reverse bears two screwback pins, measuring 112. 20 mm (w) x 105 mm (h), missing part of the top of the sceptre and part of the crown,