Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Silver, by Wächtler & Lange Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic framed by a crescent moon

framed by a crescent moon with the open end facing upwards

26 (variation)

very clean overall

constructed of rolled and twisted silver aluminum bullion

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Silver, by Wächtler & Lange Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic framed by a crescent moon(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker I. Klasse in Silber mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant starburst, bearing a central raised rosette, situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei