Germany, Wehrmacht. A German Cross in Gold, Heavy Version, by Deschler & Sohn Newly Listed Mina and Bessie

Mina and Bessie

descending from a gilded aluminum loop

Pleasant I

circumscribed by an inscription of “DEM SIEGER DES R

and along the interior edges of the coat-of-arms painting

Germany, Wehrmacht. A German Cross in Gold, Heavy Version, by Deschler & Sohn Newly Listed Mina and Bessie(Deutsches Kreuz in Gold). Constructed of gilded and silvered tombak with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a double overlaid eight pointed starburst, bearing a central silvered disc overlaid by a raised and black enameled mobile swastika, situated within a circular gilded laurel leaf wreath, wrapped in ribbon and joined together at the bottom by a plaque bearing an institution date of 1941, trimmed along both the inner and outer edges