Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Awards Auction Archive Gibson was declared "seriously ill"

Gibson was declared "seriously ill" with pneumonia on the 20th

He worked as a musical instruments manufacturer

together with matching keeper

the latter one two 35 mm (w) x 11 mm (h) ribbon bars in its partially opened glassine package

Later versions of the Officer's cross feature green enamelled pendilia instead of the rosette of ribbon

Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Awards Auction Archive Gibson was declared "seriously ill"(Auszeichnungen). A mixed lot of awards, including: 1. A War Merit Medal, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR KRIEGSVERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 19 mm in diameter, weighing 12. 6 grams, in near mint condition. 2. A Civil Service 25