Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1965 Province of China 1939 at Brno)

1939 at Brno)

opens to expose facing oval frames under plastic shields

four prongs on reverse broken off

Footnote: The document is dated 16 October 1913 and was signed by all the members of the National ‘Republican’ Party (in Hungarian: Országos Köztársasági Párt)

retaining a rounded pommel nut which screws in to maintain the dagger’s structural integrity

Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1965 Province of China 1939 at Brno)(Ritterkreuz des Eisernes 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 initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the twelve oclock arm topped by an integral loop and suspension ring retaining a period original neck ribbon, double stamped with