Germany, Wehrmacht. A Grand Cross of the Iron Cross 1939, Exhibition Example, c. 1960 Republic of with moderate soiling evident

with moderate soiling evident

winter scenes (including Plath with what is assumed to be his girlfriend

overlaid by a diving gilded brass Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika in its talons

(Heer Tropen Gürtel und Schnalle)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Grand Cross of the Iron Cross 1939, Exhibition Example, c. 1960 Republic of with moderate soiling evident(Grokreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939, Museumsstck). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the twelve oclock arm topped by an integral loop retaining a suspension ring with a period original length of