Finland, Republic. A Rare Lapland Front Cross, by Hopeatakomo O.Y. visually-hidden CAPE COLONY)

CAPE COLONY)

An extremely fine quality manufacture wartime miniature Pour le Mérite boutonnière

During the 1930s and WWII it was used as an instrument of Nazi propaganda

etched with an issue number that appears to read “2789300”

51 mm (w) x 63

Finland, Republic. A Rare Lapland Front Cross, by Hopeatakomo O.Y. visually-hidden CAPE COLONY)Constructed of silvered bronze with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a vaulted Cross Patte, the obverse with blue enameled arms joined through the quadrants by a mobile swastika bearing inscriptions of PETSMO, SALLA, ALAKURTTI, KIESTINKI, overlaid by a central circular oak leaf wreath surrounding a black enameled medallion, itself bearing a Finnish coat of arms with the flags of Finland and German, situated above dates of 1941 1943 inscriptions