Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Fire Police NCO’s Dress Bayonet Hold inscribed "GAUVERGLEICHS-KAMPF 1939 DER LEICHTATHLETEN"

inscribed "GAUVERGLEICHS-KAMPF 1939 DER LEICHTATHLETEN" below and framed by the inscription "BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG-SÜDWEST"

receiving his wings in April 1943

This Arsa Dienstuhr wristwatch was manufactured by Swiss watchmaker Auguste Reymond SA during the early 1930s

Very unusual grouping of six awards

He later transferred to the elite 1st Fallschirm-Panzer Division Hermann Göring and achieved the rank of Leutnant by the outbreak of the Second World War

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Fire Police NCO’s Dress Bayonet Hold inscribed "GAUVERGLEICHS-KAMPF 1939 DER LEICHTATHLETEN"(Feuerschutzpolizei Bajonett fr Unteroffiziere). A well preserved Feuerschutzpolizei (Fire Police) NCOs dress bayonet, measuring 39. 5 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 25 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade which retains factory original sharpening to both the tip and lower edge. A fuller runs the majority of the length of the top edge of each side of the blade. Stamped onto the obverse ricasso is a mark of