A German-Italian Africa Campaign Medal Zimmermann First Strike Newly Listed at which point he had

at which point he had served seventeen and a half months in Canada and thirty-four months in the United Kingdom

This particular buckle is illustrated on page 358 of "Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich

it was noted that Laplante

The more than three million unsold stamps were promptly destroyed by the Post Office thus making the three Graf Zeppelin issues by far the USPOD's smallest of the 20th Century

paper residue on the reverse from previous board mounting

A German-Italian Africa Campaign Medal Zimmermann First Strike Newly Listed at which point he hadBronze, obverse and reverse are independent of one another, obverse is 42 mm x 43 mm, reverse is 40. 8 mm x 42 mm, very fine. Footnote: Zimmermann was a well known German manufacturer of a great variety of awards, German and International, and was destroyed in an allied bombing raid in the early 1940's on Pforzheim, Germany. Sometime in 1990, during construction on the site, a quantity of medals was discovered (about 50 kilos) and bought by eMedals.