Germany, Weimar Republic. A Rhineland Occupation Propaganda Medal, by Hans Wittig and L. Christian Lauer visually-hidden accompanied by an additional card

accompanied by an additional card addressed to Recife

To suppress the mutiny

Courtnay (Flanders)

Silver-plated brass hilt fittings show moderate wear to finish on pommel & crossguard

Germany, Weimar Republic. A Rhineland Occupation Propaganda Medal, by Hans Wittig and L. Christian Lauer visually-hidden accompanied by an additional card(Medaille). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse bearing a raised depiction of an Allied soldier humiliating a German civilian, circumscribed by an inscription of SCHWARZE SCHMACH UND KULTURSCHANDE AM RHEIN (BLACK SHAME AND CULTURAL SHAME ON THE RHINE), the reverse bearing a central depiction of a broken sword topped by an inscription of DEUTSCHER NOT UND SCHMACH TALER (GERMAN DISTRESS AND DISGRACE TALER), the obverse engraver marked WITTIG,