Germany, Third Reich. A Mine Rescue Honour Decoration Auction Archive A fine quality manufacture Iron

A fine quality manufacture Iron Cross 1914 Second class

chipping evident in the white

published in 1939 by A

the obverse with a central white enameled medallion bearing a leftward-facing leopard

serving twenty-two months in the RCAF

Germany, Third Reich. A Mine Rescue Honour Decoration Auction Archive A fine quality manufacture Iron(Grubenwehr Ehrenzeichen). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered tombak, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a crossed hammer and mallet, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM GRUBEN WEHRWESEN (FOR MERIT IN MINE RESCUE), unmarked, measuring 35. 36 mm in diameter, weighing 21. 0 grams, in