Germany, Federal Republic. A Pour le Mérite, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1965 Newly Listed As many of the prisoners

As many of the prisoners had been jailed for being suspected Bolsheviks

this badge was buried

the document has been folded into quadrants and has been punched with five sets of dual eyelets

unmarked with small unusual pin assembly

a laurel wreath in her raised right hand and a shield with the coat-of-arms of Ceylon in her left hand

Germany, Federal Republic. A Pour le Mérite, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1965 Newly Listed As many of the prisoners(Pour le Mrite, Museumsstck). Constructed of gilded bronze with enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with blue enameled, joined through the quadrants by double sided Prussian imperial eagles, the obverse three, six, and nine oclock arms bearing a gilt inscription of POUR LE MRITE, the twelve oclock bearing a crowned monogram of King Friedrich II, the twelve oclock arm topped by a fan suspension with a ring retaining an original length of neck