Germany, Federal Republic. A Grand Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example, by Rudolf Souval, c.1965 visually-hidden marked “Wilhelm Helbing

marked “Wilhelm Helbing

Overseas Medal (in silver

the former bearing a handwritten dedication to her brother

Women were first received into the Order in 1944

Germany, Federal Republic. A Grand Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example, by Rudolf Souval, c.1965 visually-hidden marked “Wilhelm Helbing(Grokreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes, Museumsstck). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the twelve oclock arm topped by an integral loop connecting to an matching suspension ring retaining an original