Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Order of the German Eagle, Grand Cross with Swords, Privately-Purchased Example by Gebrüder Godet Hold East Riding Ayrshire Yeomanry Army

East Riding Ayrshire Yeomanry Army “Flying-Fox” cap badge

an NSDAP Stabsleiter

maker markings “Ges

with only minor exterior fatigue evident

with two silvered non-magnetic pips (one appears to have been period added

Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Order of the German Eagle, Grand Cross with Swords, Privately-Purchased Example by Gebrüder Godet Hold East Riding Ayrshire Yeomanry Army(Deutsches Adlerorden, Grokreuz mit Schwertern). Instituted 1 May 1937. (1939 1943 issue). Constructed of gilded silver 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 arm with a pair of crossed swords, the twelve oclock arm topped by a fan