Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased Knight’s Cross Of The Iron Cross, 1957 Issue Newly Listed his interests lying in fishing

his interests lying in fishing

with a piece of paper glued to the obverse of the packet reading “Deutsches Schutzwall-Ehrenzeichen” in black gothic script

A Mine Rescue Award “für Verdienste im Grubenwehrwesen” (for Merit in Mine Rescue”

A grouping of two first war Imperial German patriotic badges

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased Knight’s Cross Of The Iron Cross, 1957 Issue Newly Listed his interests lying in fishing(Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes). Reinstituted 1 September 1939 . (1939 1945 issue; post 1957 reissue). Constructed of silver and brass, consisting of a Cross Patte with a ribbed silver frame and a blackened brass core, the obverse with three central raised oak leaves, the six oclock arm with a raised reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with an initial institution date of 1813 on the six oclock arm, the twelve oclock arm with an integral loop