Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Grand Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1960 Auction weighing 593 grams

weighing 593 grams

above silvered oak leaves and a date of “1920”

and an eligible makers code

DUQUESNE (November 24)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Grand Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval, c. 1960 Auction weighing 593 grams(Grokreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 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 a reinstitution date of 1939, the twelve oclock arm topped by an eyelet connecting to a suspension ring with a period original length of neck ribbon,