Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Bravery Decoration, I Class in Gold Newly Listed The underside utilizes a leather

The underside utilizes a leather headband supported by a strip of orange foam at the forehead with a silk lined havana brown coloured underside

with stitched reinforced buttoning holes and general service buttons (left shoulder missing button)

On the August 26th

measuring 41 mm (w) x 45 mm (h)

and in the 1990s

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Bravery Decoration, I Class in Gold Newly Listed The underside utilizes a leather(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker I. Klasse Gold mit Schwertern). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed starburst, bearing a central rosette situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the reverse with a barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 49. 80 mm (w) x