Germany, Federal Republic. A Spanish Cross with Swords, Gold Grade by Rudolf Souval, Veteran's Example c. 1960 Auction Archive very light contact to enamels

very light contact to enamels

loss of green enamel to obverse of laurel sprigs held by the talons

the obverse bearing a central raised German national eagle clutching a wreathed sunwheel-style swastika

Instituted in 1919: in bronze

Germany, Federal Republic. A Spanish Cross with Swords, Gold Grade by Rudolf Souval, Veteran's Example c. 1960 Auction Archive very light contact to enamels(Spanienkreuz in Gold mit Schwertern, Museumsstck). Constructed of gilded bronze, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by Luftwaffe eagles clutching mobile swastikas, bearing a central raised mobile swastika situated within dual circular rings, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with