Germany, Federal Republic. A German Cross in Gold, Early 1957 Variant, by Steinhauer & Lück consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Footnote: The Most Exalted Order

Footnote: The Most Exalted Order of The Queen of Sheba was instituted in 1922 by Empress Zawditu

After seven years

incorporating multiple color images and black and white photographs

measuring 139 mm (w) x 199 mm (h)

flanked on each side by four stylized rays and oak leaves with two acorns

Germany, Federal Republic. A German Cross in Gold, Early 1957 Variant, by Steinhauer & Lück consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Footnote: The Most Exalted Order(Deutsches Kreuz in Gold Ausfhrung 1957). Constructed of neusilber with gilt and enamels, the obverse consisting of a double overlaid eight pointed radiant starburst, overlaid by a central silvered disc bearing a 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 with red