Germany, Third Reich. A Memel Medal, by the Berlin Mint certificate_of_authenticity on period original silk sash

on period original silk sash

John in Jerusalem (Priory of Canada)

demonstrating some surface oxidation throughout the award

the centre waist bears two gitl brass shank buttons with the crowned flying albatross and the waist at the back left and right sides bear a metal hook for a sword belt

Germany, Third Reich. A Memel Medal, by the Berlin Mint certificate_of_authenticity on period original silk sash(Medaille zur Erinnerung an die Heimkehr des Memellandes). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, 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 inscription of ZUR ERINNERUNG AN DIE HEIMKEHR DES MEMELLANDES 22. MARCH 1939 (TO COMMEMORATE THE RETURN OF