Germany, Wehrmacht. An Afrikakorps Trench Art Flask Hold (Waffen-SS Verleihungsurkunde)

(Waffen-SS Verleihungsurkunde)

This particular buckle is illustrated on page 422 of "Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich

overlaid with four interwoven silvery chords

and Unclaimed Awards (awards not able to be presented or forwarded to the recipients as their whereabouts was unknown)

2) A 1984 German Naval League NCO Göttingen badge

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Afrikakorps Trench Art Flask Hold (Waffen-SS Verleihungsurkunde)(Deutsches Afrikakorps Grabenkunst Flasche). Constructed of a hand hammered silvered alloy case, the obverse bearing a hand etched palm tree, topped by dates 1942 1943 and situated above a 1939 Iron Cross, circumscribed by a circular laurel leaf wreath joined together at the bottom by a banner bearing an inscription of DEUTSCHES AFRIKAKORPS, the upper left corner bearing a makers mark, topped by a screw top lid affixed to a retractable bar to lock