Germany, Third Reich. A Prototype Table Medal For The 1940 Nuremberg Rally, By Deschler & Sohn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac inscribed "GRAF" (Count) and "ZEPPELIN"

inscribed "GRAF" (Count) and "ZEPPELIN" at the right

(NSDAP Bücher für Mitglieder)

medal is backwards on bar

records show that Herbert was expelled from the SS and imprisoned for being involved in a plot to overthrow the government of Braunschweig

Germany, Third Reich. A Prototype Table Medal For The 1940 Nuremberg Rally, By Deschler & Sohn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac inscribed "GRAF" (Count) and "ZEPPELIN"(Reichsparteitag Erinnerungsmedaille Prototyp). A scarce and striking prototype table medal for the cancelled 1940 Nuremberg Rally, constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse bearing a central leftward facing profile of a Heer soldier wearing a Stahlhelm, flanked by a sword and torch wrapped in laurel and oak leaf branches, respectively, in turn situated above a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, circumscribed by an