Germany, Federal Republic. A Grand Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example, by Rudolf Souval, c.1965 visually-hidden mint uncleaned but very lustrous

mint uncleaned but very lustrous piece

The blade sits securely within a one-piece magnetic metal hilt with an open-top muzzle guide and hollow insertion slot with a functional push-button spring release

marked “Wilhelm Helbing

Women were first received into the Order in 1944

Germany, Federal Republic. A Grand Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example, by Rudolf Souval, c.1965 visually-hidden mint uncleaned but very lustrous(Grokreuz 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 integral loop connecting to an matching suspension ring retaining an original