Germany, Freikorps. A Freiwilliges Landesschützenkorps Cap Badge GTRexclude Accompanied by its Award Document

Accompanied by its Award Document (to an Unteroffizier

Fearing that the Republic’s future was in doubt

dozens wounded

marked with “STH” (Der Stahlhelm) and “Ges

a rare Carpathian German Decoration (Karpatendeutsche Ehrenzeichen)

Germany, Freikorps. A Freiwilliges Landesschützenkorps Cap Badge GTRexclude Accompanied by its Award Document(Freiwilliges Landesschtzenkorps Mtzenabzeichen). Constructed of gilded brass, the obverse consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, interspersed with acorns and joined together at the bottom by ribbon, affixed with all intact reverse attachment prongs to a period field grey liner, unmarked, the badge measuring 45 mm (w) x 40 mm (h), a scarce example of a variant examined in Katalog der Uniformabzeichen der deutschen Freikorps by Ingo G. Haarcke,