Germany, Imperial. A Rare Private Colonial Service Photo Album from a Soldier in German East Africa visually-hidden he walked "with a stoop"

he walked "with a stoop" and had "pain in various joints"

hallmarked on the pinback

A Rare Humbolt & Bolivar Foundation Honor Badge to Willibald Fritsch

He received the Oak Leaves in 1943

presenting replaced centrepiece slightly detached

Germany, Imperial. A Rare Private Colonial Service Photo Album from a Soldier in German East Africa visually-hidden he walked "with a stoop"(Deutsch Ostafrika Fotoalbum). A rare and interesting private photo album from a soldier in German East Africa, constructed of a card stock banding with a canvas exterior liner, the spine perforated with four eyelets reinforced with magnetic metal grommets through which is looped a drawstring which maintains the albums structural integrity, the interior content consisting of 23 black card stock pages pasted with 25 black and white photos depicting