Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Silver, by Wächtler & Lange consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Silver cross

Silver cross

Berlin served as an official crown goldsmith of the Prussian royal family

reverse with the inscription FORTITVDINI surrounded by a wreath

the obverse bearing a raised Reich Air Protection League (RLB) insignia

The cap features an intacted black leather interior band that shows period use

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Silver, by Wächtler & Lange consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Silver cross(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker I. Klasse in Silber ohne Schwertern). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant starburst, bearing a central raised rosette situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the reverse with a crimped hinge and wide vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a