Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Awards for Military and Civil Service Newly Listed On February 24th

On February 24th

King George III himself presenting him to the queen

signed by the commanding General of the 2nd Paratrooper Korps

followed by an elaborate handwritten inscription to Bismarck on the occasion of his 75th birthday

both for a wound suffered on 17 September 1942

Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Awards for Military and Civil Service Newly Listed On February 24th(Auszeichnungen). A mixed lot of awards for military and civil service, including: 1. A War Merit Medal, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon,the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR KRIEGSVERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 28 mm in diameter, weighing 12. 9 grams, in near mint