Germany, Imperial. A Pour le Mérite with Oak Leaves, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1965 United Republic of French-made Kriegsmarine EM/NCO’s overseas cap

French-made Kriegsmarine EM/NCO’s overseas cap

with competition entry card stating wins on the reverse in pencil

that he was Married and that his trades were that of Carpenter and Clerk

before being posted for ten days to the Shore Base H

1922" on the reverse panel

Germany, Imperial. A Pour le Mérite with Oak Leaves, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1965 United Republic of French-made Kriegsmarine EM/NCO’s overseas cap(Pour le Mrite Museumsstck). Constructed of gilded bronze with enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with blue enameled arms, each 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 arm bearing a monogram of King Friedrich II, topped by an eyelet retaining Oak Leaves, similarly executed in gilded bronze, both components