Germany, Federal Republic. A 1939 Grand Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example, c. 1970 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac the reverse inscribed “XII”

the reverse inscribed “XII”

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the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered tri-colour cockade topped by a silver-grey Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

magnetic metal button holding the board in place

Industrial Civil Defence Service (ICDS)(1)

Germany, Federal Republic. A 1939 Grand Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example, c. 1970 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac the reverse inscribed “XII”(Grokreuz des Eisernen 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 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 eyelet and suspension ring retaining a period original ribbon, unmarked,