Germany, Third Reich. A Mine Rescue Honour Decoration Auction Archive (Westwall Ring)

(Westwall Ring)

A fine quality manufacture Iron Cross 1914 Second class

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Germany, Third Reich. A Mine Rescue Honour Decoration Auction Archive (Westwall Ring)(Grubenwehr Ehrenzeichen). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered tombak, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a crossed hammer and mallet, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM GRUBEN WEHRWESEN (FOR MERIT IN MINE RESCUE), unmarked, measuring 35. 36 mm in diameter, weighing 21. 0 grams, in