Germany, SS. A Rare Waffen-SS Latvian Legion Arm Shield Newly Listed Instituted 1896

Instituted 1896

On the inside of the backcover there is a coffee stain that prompted somebody to write “richtiger Bohnenkaffee” (real bean coffee) next to it

the Foot Guards

unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of a Type B semi-hollow “daisy variant” produced by an unidentified manufacturer

Footnote: Donald McIntosh Robertson was born on August 16

Germany, SS. A Rare Waffen-SS Latvian Legion Arm Shield Newly Listed Instituted 1896(rmelschild der lettischen Freiwilligen der Waffen SS). Of multi piece construction, consisting of an off white cotton twill base, overlaid on the obverse by a layer of maroon cotton till, defaced by a diagonal off white tresse in representation of a Latvian national emblem, topped by a black bare bearing a printed white inscription of LATVIJA, unmarked, measuring 50 mm (w) x 65 mm (h), a scarce domestically produced variant in uniform removed and