Germany, HJ. A Rare National Political Institutes of Education Shoulder Strap consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac a lightly worn example

a lightly worn example

the other nine in gilt

each of the soldiers uniformly holding their rifles with both hands and pointing them skyward

constructed of multiple rows of braided silver aluminum wire

Enamel loss evident on one arm of the Medal of Merit

Germany, HJ. A Rare National Political Institutes of Education Shoulder Strap consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac a lightly worn example(Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten Schulterklappe). Constructed of black wool with a dark brown wool underlaying, trimmed with white piping, and bearing machine embroidered white initials NPEA (Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten National Political Institutes of Education), unmarked, measuring 40 mm (w) x 120 mm (l), demonstrating minor material fatigue (including a cut to the inner edge which has exposed the buckram core), in uniform removed