Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1960 Province of China Grand Cross of very fine

Grand Cross of very fine quality Austrian make

designer marked “PEEKHAUS” and maker marked “SCHWERIN

81mm(height)

Silvering intact on the buckle

Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1960 Province of China Grand Cross of very fine(Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes, Museumsstck). Constructed of brass and neusilber, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened brass core within a ribbed neusilber frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1831, the twelve oclock arm topped by a loop and suspension ring retaining a period original neck ribbon, unmarked but