Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, V Class Cross With Swords, By Zimmermann Auction Archive РАКОВСКИ”

РАКОВСКИ”

Townsend of New York

2913 - October 6

transferred to the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery on August 25th

To My Dear Daughter

Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, V Class Cross With Swords, By Zimmermann Auction Archive РАКОВСКИ”(Verdienstorden vom Deutschen Adler, Kreuz V. Klasse mit Schwertern). Instituted 1 May 1937. (1943 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze with enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms joined together through the quadrants by NSDAP style German national eagles clutching wreathed mobile swastikas on white enameled discs, the obverse overlaid across the three and nine oclock arms with crossed swords, the twelve oclock arm topped