Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross without Swords, 1957 Version consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac railway yards

railway yards

the interior bearing an intact Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) label with a maker’s code of “A4/117” and a secondary code of “046364”

each constructed of brown wool with card stock cores and pinned with three aluminum gulls

8 mm (w) x 43 mm (h)

as follows: "Major Broughall

Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross without Swords, 1957 Version consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac railway yards(Ritterkreuz der Kriegsverdienstkreuzes ohne Schwerter). A Knights Cross of the War Merit Cross without Swords, constructed of silver, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the top and bottom by ribbon, surrounding a pebbled void, the reverse bearing a central circular oak leaf wreath, surrounding a raised date of 1939, the twelve oclock arm topped by two ribbed bars