A Second War Period Canadian Operation Muskox Sleeve Patch Auction Bronze with a gold wash

Bronze with a gold wash

228 mm x 305 mm)

silver gilt and enamels

700 people in the Kampinos Forest

A Second War Period Canadian Operation Muskox Sleeve Patch Auction Bronze with a gold washLight blue, white and black embroidery, 56 mm x 61 mm, uniform worn, extremely fine. Footnote: Operation Muskox was the largest military exercise ever held in the Canadian Arctic and the fourth of four military expeditions held in the region in the 1940s. The previous three, Eskimo, Polar Bear and Lemming, had been on a far smaller scale in terms of personnel, equipment, and the sheer distance traveled. The origin of Muskox, and of Arctic exercises