Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Land Customs Border Officer’s Vehicle Fender Flag Cut-Off Panel Auction Archive a commemorative Eastern Front shell

a commemorative Eastern Front shell

engraved on the lid with the National Socialist Motor Corps NSKK (Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps) insignia and the inscription "INTERNATIONALES AVUS - RENNEN 1938 DEM ERSTEN PRIVATFAHRER DER KLASSE A/250 CCM"

1775" below

Accompanied by a small black-and-white photograph of a young man in plain clothes

Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Land Customs Border Officer’s Vehicle Fender Flag Cut-Off Panel Auction Archive a commemorative Eastern Front shell(Zollgrenzschutz Wimpel fr Dienstfahrzeuge der Grenzreferenten). Constructed of a smooth dark green felt base, the obverse trimmed along all four edges with silver aluminum wire tresses measuring 8 mm in diameter (indicating issue to Border Officers), bearing a central silver aluminum wire Zollgrenzschutz (Customs Border Guards) style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika executed in high relief and exceptional detail, the reverse