Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mixed Lot of Service Awards Auction Footnote: The decoration was instituted

Footnote: The decoration was instituted in 1951 and awarded to labour leaders for outstanding service in the enhancement of state infrastructures or innovative technology development

lightning bolts missing from eagle’s talons

The German letter is dated to Berlin on 23 January 1869 and was sent on behalf of the minister of clergy

but a textbook example of “Ferdinand Wiedmann” manufacture

with the left side painted in a black and red motif

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mixed Lot of Service Awards Auction Footnote: The decoration was instituted(Auszeichnungen). A mixed lot of service awards, including: 1. A War Merit Medal, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central inscription of FR KRIEGSVERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 37 mm in diameter, weighing 13. 1 grams, in near mint condition. 2. A War