Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Bravery Decoration, I Class in Gold, Type 3 with Case Newly Listed each constructed of golden-yellow wool

each constructed of golden-yellow wool with rigid card stock cores and topped by four bands of silver aluminum wire piping

It sits securely within a one-piece nickel-plated magnetic metal hilt with a hooked quillon and pommel to allow for a firm grip

By the end of the war

7 - Biographical Notes on Officers

measuring 75 mm (w) x 112 mm (h)

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Bravery Decoration, I Class in Gold, Type 3 with Case Newly Listed each constructed of golden-yellow wool(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker I. Klasse in Gold mit Schwertern und Etui). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed starburst, bearing a central rosette situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the reverse with barrel hinge and wide vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, with a classic