Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1965 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic measuring 55 mm in diameter

measuring 55 mm in diameter and applied upside-down

1930 for award to holders of the combatants card

consisting of a central circular emblem with a boar's head and cat surmounted by a crown

the Order of Leopold

official WWI issue

Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1965 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic measuring 55 mm in diameter(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,