Germany, Third Reich. A Wartime Harvest Female Farmworkers Appreciation Badge GTRexclude and harder to produce helium

and harder to produce helium (it is an extracted byproduct of mined natural gas) were controlled by the United States

The interior of the tunic contains a pocket on the upper left breast stamped with “E 22” and the date “1940”

inscribed "MINISTÈRE DE LA GUERRE" above

designer marked "LAVRENCE CAMPBELL R

the Ball at Court was the more socially exclusive event

Germany, Third Reich. A Wartime Harvest Female Farmworkers Appreciation Badge GTRexclude and harder to produce helium(Kriegserntedank Abzeichen). Constructed of bronzed zink, horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a central raised Odal rune, above a mobile swastika and flanked by wheat stalks, circumscribed by inscriptions of KRIEGSERNTEDANK AN DIE BUERIN (WARTIME GRATITUDE TO THE FEMALE FARMERS) and LANDESBAUERNSCHAFT ALPENLAND (ALPENLAND PROVINCIAL AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION), unmarked, measuring 52 mm in diameter, some loss of bronze finish evident, in overall