Germany, Federal Republic. A 1939 Grand Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1960 Hold and assigned to the 1st

and assigned to the 1st Company of the Landsturm infantry battalion Kiel

on a full-length folded-over ribbon sewn in place with black threading on one side

with an additional substitute tin retaining tiles and dice

both unmarked and measuring 9 mm (w) x 17 mm (h)

Germany, Federal Republic. A 1939 Grand Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1960 Hold and assigned to the 1st(Grokreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939, Museumsstck). Constructed of iron and neusilber, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed and 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 integral loop retaining a suspension ring accompanied by a