A Reichsnährstand Wartime Harvest Appreciation Female Farmers Badge Hold wearing the Iron Cross 1st

wearing the Iron Cross 1st Class 1914 and the Bavarian Observer Badge

shortly after the war

kraft paper banded

with contact to rim

he had achieved the rank of Lieutenant Commander

A Reichsnährstand Wartime Harvest Appreciation Female Farmers Badge Hold wearing the Iron Cross 1stZinc with a copper coloured gilt, unmarked, illustrating an insignia in the centre with a swastika below and flanked by wheat sheaves, inscribed "Kriegserntedank an die Buerin" above and "Landesbauernschaft Alpenland" below, 50. 5 mm, horizontal pinback, traces of the gilt remains on the reverse, near very fine. Footnote: The Reichsnhrstand (RNST) was a government body set up in Nazi Germany to regulate food production.