Germany, Heer. A Kuban Shield certificate_of_authenticity officers’ servants and grooms from

officers’ servants and grooms from the Indian Army

although this badge shows signs of period wear

Toronto ON

its ends stitched together on the reverse

mounted on a cornflower blue Waffenfarbe wool base

Germany, Heer. A Kuban Shield certificate_of_authenticity officers’ servants and grooms from(Heer Kubanschild). Constructed of bronzed magnetic metal, 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 and flanked by a date of 1943, affixed with all four reverse attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate and field grey wool liner, the reverse retaining an original brown paper liner, unmarked, the shield measuring 51.