Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Order of the German Eagle, II Class Merit Cross with Case, by Deschler & Sohn Province of China impressed D POTTERTON CE 140172

impressed D POTTERTON CE 140172

and blue cotton

with the upper pockets closing with vertical flaps with reinforced buttonholes meeting black bakelite buttons

Instituted December 2 1849

the end of the dagger finished with a pommel in gilded bronze and bearing the state emblem of the Soviet Union on the obverse side and is finished with a circular disk with a raised five-pointed star on its end

Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Order of the German Eagle, II Class Merit Cross with Case, by Deschler & Sohn Province of China impressed D POTTERTON CE 140172(Verdienstorden vom Deutschen Adler Verdienstkreuz II. Klasse mit Etui). Instituted 1 May 1937. (1937 1943 issue). Constructed of silver with enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with white enameled arms, joined through the quadrants by NSDAP style German national eagles clutching wreathed mobile swastikas on white enameled discs, the reverse with a narrow barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, the pinback stamped