Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1960 Province of China 81mm(height)

81mm(height)

with signatures in blue ink on postcard measuring 9 x 14 cm

Grand Cross of very fine quality Austrian make

designer marked “PEEKHAUS” and maker marked “SCHWERIN

pinned to its presentation card

Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1960 Province of China 81mm(height)(Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes, Museumsstck). Constructed of brass and neusilber, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened brass core within a ribbed 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 1831, the twelve oclock arm topped by a loop and suspension ring retaining a period original neck ribbon, unmarked but