Hamburg, Free City. A Life Saving Medal Auction erased and re-engraved on the

erased and re-engraved on the VM

Constructed of rolled

of very simple construction

the reverse inscribed “Für Kriegsverdienst 1939” (For Wartime Merit 1939)

Canadian-made

Hamburg, Free City. A Life Saving Medal Auction erased and re-engraved on the1918 1934 issue. A well preserved example of a Life Saving Medal (Rettungsmedaille) of the Free City of Hamburg; a circular silver medal; the obverse depicting the Coat of Arms of Hamburg, inscribed below Fr Rettung aus Gefahr (German For Rescue from Danger), all circumscribed Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (German Free and Hanseatic City Hamburg) in Gothic lettering; the reverse depicting a kneeling man struggling to free himself from tentacles; on a