Germany, Heer. A Kuban Shield, by Karl Wurster Archive obverse illustrating an embossed winged

obverse illustrating an embossed winged man (Icarus) in flight

Levant Campaign Medal (in bronze gilt

with two rivets for attachment of the eagle to the wreath

of which 525 were awarded during the First War

on a buckram core

Germany, Heer. A Kuban Shield, by Karl Wurster Archive obverse illustrating an embossed winged(Heer Kubanschild). Constructed of bronze, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a stylized map of the Kuban region, topped by an inscription of KUBAN and a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, in turn flanked by a date of 1943, affixed with all four reverse prongs to a non magnetic metal backplate with a field grey wool liner and intact black paper backer, without visible marks but demonstrating the characteristics of