A Mint Short Range Day Fighter Clasp: Bronze Grade Auction Archive Six months to the day

Six months to the day of his arrival in the French theatre

In its plastic case of issue

then assigned to the German embassy in Vienna

otherwise nearly extremely fine and extremely rare

which later investigation suggested was a forgery

A Mint Short Range Day Fighter Clasp: Bronze Grade Auction Archive Six months to the dayA textbook example of a Short Range Day Fighter Clasp; in bronzed tombac; the obverse with a central laurel wreath with a upward pointing winged arrow in the centre, a static swastika on the bottom of the wreath, with nine oak leaves on either side of the wreath; horizontal slender banjo style pinback, barrel hinge, and round wire catch; measuring 75. 75 mm x 25. 54 mm; weighing 16. 3 grams; with nearly 95% of its original bronzing intact; in near