Germany, Wehrmacht. A German Cross In Gold, By Otto Klein Auction black wool backer

black wool backer

with three retaining oilcloth identity passes and the remainder notably retaining a black-and-white studio portrait of the bearer

featuring a handwritten signature of Kapitänleutnant Hans Bartels (Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross

all extremely fine or better

Second Givenchy

Germany, Wehrmacht. A German Cross In Gold, By Otto Klein Auction black wool backer(Deutsches Kreuz in Gold). Constructed of cupal with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a double overlaid radiant starburst pattern, with a central silvered disc bearing a black enameled mobile swastika, within a circular laurel leaf wreath wrapped in ribbon, joined together at the bottom by a plaque bearing a date of 1941, trimmed along both the inner and outer edges with a red enameled ring, the reverse with four visible rivets