Footnote: The Hlinka Guard (HG) was the militia maintained by the Slovak People's Party in the period from 1938 to 1945
with a central mobile swastika inside of an oak leaf wreath
one is padded with a black cotton backer and measuring 112 mm (w) x 46 mm (h)
gilt Venezuelan coat-of-arms and marked "ORDEN MILITAR AL MERITO" on the lid
the reverse bearing an inscription of “FÜR VERDIENSTVOLLE MITARBEIT BEI DEN OLYMPISCHEN SPIELEN 1936” (“FOR MERITORIOUS ASSISTANCE TO THE OLYMPIC GAMES OF 1936”)
Canada, United Kingdom. Collector's Guide To The Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife Newly Listed Footnote: The Hlinka Guard (HG)Softcover, entitled "Collector's Guide to the Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife" by Alan W. Locken of Winnipeg, Manitoba, published and copyrighted by the author, book production by Bunker to Bunker Books of Winnipeg, printed and bound by Hignell Printing Limited of Winnipeg in 1995, ISBN 0 9699764 0 2. As stated on the back cover: "The Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife, considered one of the most important knife designs of the 20th Century, is examined