United States. Forty-Nine Air Base And Quartermaster Military Insignia United Republic of and the Public Health Service

and the Public Health Service

A handwritten note reads “Herbert Backe Staatssekretär” (State Secretary)

With machine woven letters

Order of the British Empire Group of Eleven Miniatures - Swing mounted as originally worn

49 mm x 85 mm at the butt end and 200 mm in length overall

United States. Forty-Nine Air Base And Quartermaster Military Insignia United Republic of and the Public Health ServiceAll are fabricated from bronze, forty are gilt, nine are silvered, in various colors of enamels, with various maker marks, in various sizes, twenty six with a single screwback, seventeen with vertical pinbacks, three with horizontal pinbacks, two with dual push pins, one with one push pin and missing the other, intact enamels, ranging from very fine to extremely fine. This offering is a part of the "Dr. Albert Goodwin Collection", a preeminent