Germany, Luftwaffe. A 1941-1942 Luftgau Moscow Winter Campaign Commemorative Plate, by Meissen Archive chipping evident in the red

chipping evident in the red enamels on the obverse centrepiece ring

wrapped around a orange-brown embroidered core

1st and 2nd Classes - Order of Military Merit

Michael slaying Satan with a blue enamelled surround inscribed AUSPICIUM MELIORIS ÆVI (Token of a Better Age)

After twenty-two months as a prisoner in Bischofswerda

Germany, Luftwaffe. A 1941-1942 Luftgau Moscow Winter Campaign Commemorative Plate, by Meissen Archive chipping evident in the red(Luftwaffe Meien Teller "Winterfeldzug Luftgau Moskau 1941 1942"). Constructed of glaze white porcelain, the obverse bearing a central blue domes of a Russian Orthodox Church, topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, flanked by dates 1941 1942, and circumscribed by an inscription of WINTERFELDZUG LUFTGAU MOSKAU (WINTER CAMPAIGN AIR DISTRICT MOSCOW), the reverse bearing the logo of the Meissen Porcelain Factory, topped by two eyelets