Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross Of The Iron Cross, Postwar Veteran’s Example, C. 1950 Auction Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair

Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair

the obverse presents the diademed head of Queen Victoria facing left with the inscription VICTORIA VINDEX (PROTECTOR)

attached to Grenadier-Regiment 639

Quebec on August 13

on 27 January 1944

Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross Of The Iron Cross, Postwar Veteran’s Example, C. 1950 Auction Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair(Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue; c. 1950 reissue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed and silvered 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