Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross Of The Iron Cross With Oak Leaves And Swords, With Case, 1957 Version Archive including Hamilton

including Hamilton

The case is a modern rendition

Konrad Buchinger or similar

A portrait of Michalski in plain clothes is riveted to the second page and stamped with two diagonally opposite stamps

The blade is textbook Robert Klaas U-9 pattern (unique to this maker)

Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross Of The Iron Cross With Oak Leaves And Swords, With Case, 1957 Version Archive including Hamilton(Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern mit Etui). Constructed of iron and silver, 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 twelve oclock arm with an integral loop connecting to a silver clasp with a double