Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross Of The Iron Cross, With Case, Early 1957 Version Auction At the Yalta Conference France

At the Yalta Conference France had been granted an occupation zone within Germany

named to Oberfeldwebel Werner Borner

A bronze cross pattée with sun rays emanating from the centre of the cross

incorporating a button down fly with three brass buttons flanked by plastic buttons at either end

his doctors wanted him to be transferred to a so called “Magen-Bataillon” (gastric battalion)

Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross Of The Iron Cross, With Case, Early 1957 Version Auction At the Yalta Conference France(Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Etui). Constructed of iron and silver, on a double loop ring suspension with its period original length of neck ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with three central oak leaves, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the reverse twelve oclock arm marked