manufacturer's label inscribed "ARCTIC CAMPAIGN MEDAL / AWARD PRODUCTIONS LTD / SURREY" and numbered "2401" affixed to the bottom
Auspicium Melioris Ævi (Token of a Better Age)
postmarked 10 April 1943 from Zagreb
and brought back two prisoners for identification
the obverse bearing a central crowned and wreathed monogram of King Friedrich August
Germany, Third Reich. A Mint Air Defence Honour Decoration, II Class, with Case GTRexclude manufacturer's label inscribed "ARCTIC CAMPAIGN(Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen II. Klasse mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of aluminum, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with pinback, consisting of a double sided circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a mobile swastika circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR MERIT IN AIR DEFENCE), the reverse bearing an institution date of