Germany, Imperial. A Grand Cross Breast Star To The 1914 Iron Cross, Exhibition Example By Souval, C.1955 Archive and Parachute Instructor Jump Wing

and Parachute Instructor Jump Wing

From 1955 it was a member force of the Warsaw Pact

in prison camp

overlaid by a dagger wrapped with a multi-headed serpent

but with features of maker "Paul Meybauer

Germany, Imperial. A Grand Cross Breast Star To The 1914 Iron Cross, Exhibition Example By Souval, C.1955 Archive and Parachute Instructor Jump Wing(Bruststern zum Grokreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes, Museumsstck). Constructed of gilded bronze with neusilber and iron, consisting of an eight pointed radiant star, the obverse bearing a central 1914 Iron Cross consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, with a central initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with a barrel hinge