Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross without Swords, 1957 Version consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac each constructed of brown wool

each constructed of brown wool with card stock cores and pinned with three aluminum gulls

The aiguillette is constructed of multiple pieces of twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire piping braided into large knots

maker marked "Luxenberg NEW YORK" and marked "STERLING" on the reverse

railway yards

otherwise near extremely fine

Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross without Swords, 1957 Version consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac each constructed of brown wool(Ritterkreuz der Kriegsverdienstkreuzes ohne Schwerter). A Knights Cross of the War Merit Cross without Swords, constructed of silver, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the top and bottom by ribbon, surrounding a pebbled void, the reverse bearing a central circular oak leaf wreath, surrounding a raised date of 1939, the twelve oclock arm topped by two ribbed bars