Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1965 Province of China 88mm (w) x 54

88mm (w) x 54

Hauck became a POW

Footnote: William Samuel Chambers was born on September 29

The same flap bears the partially-legible remnants of size dimensions in black ink

last spring

Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1965 Province of China 88mm (w) x 54(Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes, Museumsstck). Constructed of iron and neusilber, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a frosted neusilber 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 which retains a suspension ring and original length of neck