Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1965 United Republic of IV 1914-1918 cap badge

IV 1914-1918 cap badge

So I stretched out on the bed and waited for him

circumscribed by an inscription of “KRIES-SCHIESSEN KUFSTEIN 1943”

paint chipping evident of some of the brown painted raised lettering exposing the underlying silvering

Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1965 United Republic of IV 1914-1918 cap badge(Ritterkreuz des Eisernes Kreuzes 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 initial mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the twelve oclock arm topped by an integral loop and suspension ring retaining a period original neck ribbon,