Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1965 Hold as his feet slipped out

as his feet slipped out from under him

Stitched onto the peak is an insignia in the form of a blue-grey cotton-blended backer bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey Reichsbahn-style German national eagle

constructed of a wooden frame with a faux blue leather exterior liner

1936 RDB Lubeck Tinnie - In die stamped silver metal

the obverse bearing a central raised National Socialist Flyers Corps insignia

Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1965 Hold as his feet slipped out(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