Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1970 Auction exhibiting flaking and chipping evident

exhibiting flaking and chipping evident in two locations on the raised rim on the obverse and in one location on the reverse

the reverse bearing a maker’s mark of “B

The first card is written in German

with a vertical broad pinback

Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1970 Auction exhibiting flaking and chipping evident(Ritterkreuz des Kriegsverdienstkreuzes mit Schwertern, Museumsstck). Constructed of neusilber, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse bearing a central circular oak leaf wreath surrounding a pebbled field, the reverse bearing a central circular oak leaf wreath surrounding a raised date of 1939, the twelve oclock arm with a loop and suspension ring retaining a period original