Germany, Third Reich. A Kurhessen Kyffhäuser League Veterans’ Car Rally Commemorative Plaque, By Gebrüder Fest Auction with signature in faded blue

with signature in faded blue ink

2 mm in depth

on a bow ribbon featuring a sewn-on horizontal pinback (two of the four stitches severed)

with white cotton and paper lined backing

Footnote: The Foreign Operational Theatres Commemorative Medal was instituted on September 26

Germany, Third Reich. A Kurhessen Kyffhäuser League Veterans’ Car Rally Commemorative Plaque, By Gebrüder Fest Auction with signature in faded blue(Erinnerungsplakette). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a central raised Kurhessen coat of arms, topped by a forested scene with a city skyline in the background, circumscribed by an inscription of KURHESSEN GRSST SEINE GSTE (KURHESSEN GREETS ITS GUESTS), with a presumed engravers mark of ES K for an unidentified individual or firm, the reverse maker marked GEBR. FEST, HANAU A M, measuring 60 mm (w) x 108 mm