Italy, Kingdom. A Second War Italian Commander’s Tank Badge Auction Archive bearing four bands of silver

bearing four bands of silver aluminum wire piping interspersed with black and white threading

the exterior bearing an etched inscription of “PAMIATKA Z RUSKEJ VOJNY” (“MEMENTO OF THE RUSSIAN WAR”)

in Aug 1943

postmarked August 26

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Italy, Kingdom. A Second War Italian Commander’s Tank Badge Auction Archive bearing four bands of silverIn bronze gilt with red and black enamels, illustrating a dragon hovering over a tank, surrounded by an open ended wreath of oak leaves, inscribed "FERREA MOLE FERREO CVORE" (Iron Heart, Iron Mole), measuring 46. 5 mm (w) x 31. 5 mm (h), slide locking horizontal pinback, intact enamels, in its original glassine package of issue, mint.