Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross, Exhibition Example, c.1960 Auction Archive circumscribed by an inscription of

circumscribed by an inscription of “DEN SIEGREICHEN STREITERN” (“TO THE VICTORIOUS WARRIORS”)

" (2nd South Midland Field Artillery)

and dated 1851 in the left corner

84 mm (w) x 68

Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross, Exhibition Example, c.1960 Auction Archive circumscribed by an inscription of(Ritterkreuz des Kriegsverdienstkreuzes Museumsstck). Constructed of silvered bronze, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central wreathed date of 1939, the twelve oclock arm topped by two ribbed bars culminating in an eyelet and suspension ring retaining an original length of neck ribbon, unmarked, measuring 52.