Germany, HJ. A Rare High Command Badge for Distinguished Foreigners consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac sinking a twelfth and final

sinking a twelfth and final ship on the way

with a depressed black velvet medal bed inset with a central channel to accommodate the suspension ring

contact marks and crazing in the white enamels on the obverse

measuring 21 mm (w) x 14 mm (h)

Germany, HJ. A Rare High Command Badge for Distinguished Foreigners consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac sinking a twelfth and final(HJ Ehrenzeichen fr verdiente Auslnder). Constructed of gilded and silvered bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse bearing a central oval white enameled medallion, situated within a brown enameled ring bearing a gilt inscription of HJ, overlaid by a silvered German national eagle clutching an enameled HJ insignia, flanked by oak leaves, the reverse with three visible rivets securing the obverse applique in position, with a rectangular plate