Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1970 certificate_of_authenticity with a celluloid moisture shield

with a celluloid moisture shield stitched in place

DUKE STREET

surface wear)

with a fixed horizontally-pierced loop and swivel ring for suspension from its period original ribbon (with evidence of previous collector’s mounting) with a ribbon bar inscribed “8th Army”

one depicting Generalleutnant Theodor Tolsdorf

Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1970 certificate_of_authenticity with a celluloid moisture shield(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