Germany, Third Reich. An Order of the German Eagle, V Class Cross with Swords, Spanish Version c. 1944 Newly Listed measuring16

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black cloth reinforcing backer

the obverse bearing machine-embroidered silver-grey wool insignia

during the retreat on the Second Army front in April 1918

the panels are rolled up and secured in place with pebbled and grey-painted magnetic metal buttons emanating from the right flap and meeting an equal number of reinforced buttonholes on the left flap

Germany, Third Reich. An Order of the German Eagle, V Class Cross with Swords, Spanish Version c. 1944 Newly Listed measuring16(Deutscher Adlerorden, Kreuz V. Klasse mit Schwertern). Instituted 1 May 1937. (1943 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze with enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with white enameled arms joined through the quadrants by NSDAP style German national eagles clutching wreathed mobile swastikas on white enameled discs, overlaid across the three and nine oclock arms with crossed swords, the twelve oclock arm topped by an oak leaf