Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, V Class With Swords, By C.f. Zimmermann GTRexclude As a dress piece

As a dress piece

Accompanied by the Grand Officer Star

with a barrel hinge

with moderate enamel chipping

1934 and signed in black ink by Reich Governor in Brunswick and Anhalt

Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, V Class With Swords, By C.f. Zimmermann GTRexclude As a dress piece(Verdienstorden vom Deutschen Adler, Kreuz V. Klasse mit Schwertern). Instituted 1 May 1945. (1943 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze with enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms joined through the quadrants by NSDAP style German national eagles clutching wreathed mobile swastikas on white enameled discs, the obverse overlaid across the three and nine oclock arms with crossed swords, the twelve oclock arm with a fan