Germany, Federal Republic. A Spanish Cross with Swords, Gold Grade by Rudolf Souval, Veteran's Example c. 1960 Auction Archive with light to moderate scattered

with light to moderate scattered bruising on the reverse

at the age of 81

loss of green enamel to obverse of laurel sprigs held by the talons

Instituted in 1919: in bronze

surrounded by rings of white and black enamels

Germany, Federal Republic. A Spanish Cross with Swords, Gold Grade by Rudolf Souval, Veteran's Example c. 1960 Auction Archive with light to moderate scattered(Spanienkreuz in Gold mit Schwertern, Museumsstck). Constructed of gilded bronze, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by Luftwaffe eagles clutching mobile swastikas, bearing a central raised mobile swastika situated within dual circular rings, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with