Germany - Third Reich / Italy: Commemorative Medal for the Italo-German Campaign in Africa 1940-1943, 1st type zinc metal form, makers details for Lorioli of Milan, with length of ribbon.
Condition: some pitting in places, Very Fine
The award was first created in ribbon form in 1942 for Italian and German troops in North Africa but on 7 January 1943 a medal was proposed by General Magli on behalf of the Supreme Command in Libya. The Medal, though produced and distributed, was never officially recognised and is scarce.