Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1965 Province of China exhibiting contact marks and surface

exhibiting contact marks and surface wear in various locations

Schwebig received the War Merit Cross II Class on 20 April 1943

La Haye”

of Arlington

Provenance: SOTHEBY JULY 1979

Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1965 Province of China exhibiting contact marks and surface(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 and suspension ring retaining a period original neck ribbon, the ring