Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, I Class Cross With Case, By Gebrüder Godet & Co. Auction and bearing silvered bronze rank

and bearing silvered bronze rank pips

each constructed of red wool with buckram cores

the reverse with a silvered oak leaves on the upper and lower arms

depicting a rightward facing bust of Kaiser Franz Joseph

died on August 15

Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, I Class Cross With Case, By Gebrüder Godet & Co. Auction and bearing silvered bronze rank(Orden vom Deutschen Adler, I. Klasse mit Etui). Instituted 1 May 1937. (1939 1943 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms, with each quadrant joined together by a gilt NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika on a white enameled background, the twelve oclock arm with a ribbed fan transitioning to an integral loop, in turn bearing a ribbed suspension ring