Germany, Third Reich. A 1938 Commemorative Anschluss Plaque Auction centrepiece slightly askew

centrepiece slightly askew

1916 by the Municipal Council of Verdun

92ER IMMOTA FIDES

the undersides on both in green cotton and padded

thin construction (so called thin wreath)

Germany, Third Reich. A 1938 Commemorative Anschluss Plaque Auction centrepiece slightly askew(Anschluss sterreichs Erinnerungsplakette). Constructed of patinated bronze, the obverse bearing a raised and highly detailed leftward facing profile of AH, circumscribed by an inscription of EIN EWIGER TRAUM DER DEUTSCHEN MENSCHEN WURDE VERWIRKLICHT (AN ETERNAL DREAM OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE BECAME A REALITY), with a date of 13. MAERZ 1938, the reverse hollow and with an integral suspension loop, unmarked, measuring 235 mm in diameter, with minor signs