Germany, Federal Republic. A Mint Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1960 Republic of a Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold badge

a Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold badge

consisting of a Savoy Cross with a green enameled laurel and oak wreath in the quadrants between the arms of the cross

Generalmajor Mortimer von Kessel (1893–1981)

Drum retracted

also a period studio photograph of the recipient

Germany, Federal Republic. A Mint Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1960 Republic of a Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold badge(Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes, Museumsstck). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver 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 retaining a suspension ring and period original length of neck ribbon,