Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased Knight’s Cross Of The Iron Cross, Post-1957 Reissue Newly Listed 15th Battery

15th Battery

Tannenberg was a ferry owned by the Hamburg America Line (Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft = HAPAG)

of Lüdenscheid (pre-RZM)

with loss of some silvering due to wear

Mounted to a strip of cardboard

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased Knight’s Cross Of The Iron Cross, Post-1957 Reissue Newly Listed 15th Battery(Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes). Reinstituted 1 September 1939 . (1939 1945 issue; post 1957 reissue). Constructed of silver and brass, consisting of a Cross Patte with a ribbed silver frame and a blackened brass core, the obverse with three central raised oak leaves, the six oclock arm with a raised reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with an initial institution date of 1813 on the six oclock arm, the twelve oclock arm with an integral loop