Germany, SS. A Rare Waffen-SS Latvian Legion Arm Shield Archive with the original IC1

with the original IC1

by Philip the Good

then Squadron Leader and Commanding Officer of Red Indians in 1943

the centre bears “AFRIKAKORPS” machine woven in silver coloured aluminum flat-wire thread

Germany, SS. A Rare Waffen-SS Latvian Legion Arm Shield Archive with the original IC1(rmelschild der lettischen Freiwilligen der Waffen SS). Of multi piece construction, consisting of an off white cotton twill base, overlaid on the obverse by a layer of maroon cotton till, defaced by a diagonal off white tresse in representation of a Latvian national emblem, topped by a black bare bearing a printed white inscription of LATVIJA, unmarked, measuring 50 mm (w) x 65 mm (h), a scarce domestically produced variant in uniform removed and