Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Peoples’ Federation Of Germans In Hungary Membership Badge consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac circumscribed by the book’s author

circumscribed by the book’s author and title with an Irish tricolour flag motif

the pockets in purple satin

loss of paint to the scabbard

the reverse with an inscription of “DEM VERDIENST” (“FOR MERIT”)

Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Peoples’ Federation Of Germans In Hungary Membership Badge consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac circumscribed by the book’s author(Volksbund der Deutschen in Ungarn Mitgliedsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse bearing a white enameled disc overlaid by a gilded sunwheel style mobile swastika with scarcely perceptible grooves dividing the arms, set within a red enameled ring bearing a black inscription of VOLKSBUND DER DEUTSCHEN IN UNGARN (PEOPLES FEDERATION OF GERMANS IN HUNGARY), the reverse with a boutonniere style attachment