Germany, Wehrmacht. A Kurland Cuff Title Auction field gray wool underside

field gray wool underside

obverse illustrating the royal crown above the inscription "ROYAL CANADIAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION" and enclosed in an open-ended wreath of maple leaves and olive leaves

A textbook example of an early Second War “Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold”

consisting of an oval laurel wreath

illustrating a screaming eagle

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Kurland Cuff Title Auction field gray wool underside(rmelband Kurland). Instituted 12 March 1945. (1945 issue). Constructed of machine woven silver grey cotton threading, the exterior bearing a machine embroidered black inscription of KURLAND, flanked on the left by a machine embroidered black shield bearing a Teutonic Order style cross with each arm completing in a fleur de lys, flanked on the right by a shield bearing a coat of arms of the former Courland capital city of Mitau (now Jelgava),