Germany, Imperial. A Donation Book from the Citizens of Krefeld, with Letter, for Otto von Bismarck’s 70th Birthday Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Footnote: The Hlinka Guard (HG)

Footnote: The Hlinka Guard (HG) was the militia maintained by the Slovak People's Party in the period from 1938 to 1945

gilt wear on the LSC 2nd Class

23 mm (h) weighing 19

constructed of multiple pieces of heavy grey leather with machine stitched reinforcements along the seams

/ I gave the world my son / That he might help to save / The things for which your Son / Nobly died

Germany, Imperial. A Donation Book from the Citizens of Krefeld, with Letter, for Otto von Bismarck’s 70th Birthday Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Footnote: The Hlinka Guard (HG)(Krefeld Ehrengabe). A unique commemorative book, constructed of a heavy card stock binding with a brown velvet exterior liner, the cover bearing an embossed and gilded inscription of DEM FRSTEN REICHSKANZLER VON BEWOHNERN DER STADT CREFELD (TO THE PRINCE CHANCELLOR FROM THE CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF CREFELD), situated within an embroidered and silvered border, the interior featuring non paginated interior pages, opening with an elaborate dedication to