Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1943 Afrikakorps Trench Art Ring consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Japan’s Imperial Army held China’s

Japan’s Imperial Army held China’s seaports and eastern plains in a death grip

Footnote: Franz Joss was born on 13 March 1902 in Budapest

exhibiting great attention to detail

circumscribed by the inscription MERENTI (MERIT)

two Aviation Rescue Swimmer Badges (in gilt metal

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1943 Afrikakorps Trench Art Ring consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Japan’s Imperial Army held China’s(Afrikakorps Ring in Silber). Constructed of silver, the obverse bearing a central faintly gilded rectangular medallion overlaid by a hand etched camel topped by an inscription of TRIPOL (TRIPOLI) and situated above a date of 1943, flanked on each side by additional hand etched imagery consisting of a camel and mosque with a palm tree, the interior bearing a silver content number of 900, corresponding to a size 6, weighing 8. 3 grams, a quintessential