Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern People’s Medal, I Class With Swords, Gold Grade Newly Listed The bayonet features a 250

The bayonet features a 250 mm-long nickel-plated magnetic metal blade with a sharpened tip and unsharpened edges

a tan leather sweatband circles the interior

Orduna on October 27

measures 81mm (w) x 21mm (h)

enamel repair on the obverse centrepiece

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern People’s Medal, I Class With Swords, Gold Grade Newly Listed The bayonet features a 250(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker 1. Klasse Gold mit Schwertern). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant star overlaid by crossed swords, with a central six petalled rosette, set within a circular laurel leaf wreath with a ribbed border, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flattened catch, unmarked, measuring 49. 78