Germany, SS. A Set of Waffen-SS Reconnaissance Obersturmführer Shoulder Boards Auction and Army China Campaign Medal

and Army China Campaign Medal (in bronze

constructed of olive-drab velveton

From its 1939 foundation to his 1966 death

replacement triangular ribbon with hook and eye

crazing evident in the white enamels on the reverse of the arm at 3 o'clock

Germany, SS. A Set of Waffen-SS Reconnaissance Obersturmführer Shoulder Boards Auction and Army China Campaign Medal(Waffen SS Schulterklappen fr einen Obersturmfhrer der Aufklrung Kradschtze). A matching set of Waffen SS Reconnaissance Obersturmfhrer shoulder boards, each constructed of a black wool base with a rigid card stock core, trimmed with copper brown piping, topped by four bands of silver aluminum wire piping, and pinned with a single silvered rank pip, both unmarked and measuring 35 mm (w) x 115 mm (l), in uniform removed and near extremely fine