Germany, Third Reich. A German Red Cross Nurse’s Cross, IV Class Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 6 mm (w) x 228

6 mm (w) x 228

circumscribed by a Cyrillic dedication to the 1774 peace treaty which ended the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774 on favourable terms for the Russian Empire (the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca)

though sporadic guerilla attacks and reprisals continuing well into the 1920s

dated from 1912 to 1932

the obverse bearing an HJ insignia within a gilt border

Germany, Third Reich. A German Red Cross Nurse’s Cross, IV Class Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 6 mm (w) x 228(Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Schwesternkreuz IV. Klasse). Instituted 1 May 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of a silver alloy with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a narrow Cross Patte, the obverse bearing a central white enameled medallion overlaid by a Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (German Red Cross DRK) log in the form of a black German national eagle clutching a red Geneva Cross and overlaid by a silver mobile swastika, the twelve oclock arm topped by