Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross without Swords, 1957 Version Archive 14 mm x 51 mm

14 mm x 51 mm

contact marks evident on both sides

Collar Tab Pair (browning copper

with broken chains around his right arm (symbolic of the liberation of the Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovak oppression)

the box with a flip-up lid and measuring 85 mm (w) x 120 mm (h) x 21 mm (d)

Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross without Swords, 1957 Version Archive 14 mm x 51 mm(Ritterkreuz der Kriegsverdienstkreuzes ohne Schwerter). A Knights Cross of the War Merit Cross without Swords, constructed of silver, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the top and bottom by ribbon, surrounding a pebbled void, the reverse bearing a central circular oak leaf wreath, surrounding a raised date of 1939, the twelve oclock arm topped by two ribbed bars