Germany, Wehrmacht. An Azad Hind Order, I Class Star, by Rudolf Souval Archive Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal

Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal (bronze gilt

Footnote: The Reichsnährstand was a government body set up by the German government to regulate food production

Formation was kept until one F

A very scarce set of insignia of fine quality Spanish manufacture

with toned silver and blent 9 o’clock arm of the star

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Azad Hind Order, I Class Star, by Rudolf Souval Archive Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal(Orden Azad Hind, Bruststern I. Klasse). Constructed of gilded and silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed starburst, bearing a central gilded medallion overlaid by a leftward facing Bengal tiger, circumscribed by an inscription of AZAD HIND, with the voids filled by clusters of laurel leaves, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked RUDOLF SOUVAL, WIEN VII, measuring 60. 24 mm