Germany, Federal Republic. A Pour le Mérite, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1965 Province of China a cross pattee of multi-piece

a cross pattee of multi-piece construction

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He was residing in Humber Bay

Stitched into the peak is an insignia in the form of a silver-grey machine-embroidered Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

the obverse consisting of a red Tirol-style eagle clutching a target overlaid by a swastika

Germany, Federal Republic. A Pour le Mérite, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1965 Province of China a cross pattee of multi-piece(Pour le Mrite, Museumsstck). Constructed of gilded bronze with enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with blue enameled, joined through the quadrants by double sided Prussian imperial eagles, the obverse three, six, and nine oclock arms bearing a gilt inscription of POUR LE MRITE, the twelve oclock bearing a crowned monogram of King Friedrich II, the twelve oclock arm topped by a fan suspension with a ring retaining an original length of neck