Germany, Third Reich. A German Social Welfare Decoration, I Class Cross Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic including one featuring a 1908

including one featuring a 1908 photo of one above Stuttgart

Czech inscriptions in black and blue inks on the reverse

based in Gibraltar

pinning down the Japanese Air Force

In machine embroidered white threads on a brown rayon backer

Germany, Third Reich. A German Social Welfare Decoration, I Class Cross Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic including one featuring a 1908(Ehrenzeichen fr deutsche Volkspflege, Kreuz I. Klasse). Instituted 1 May 1939. (1939 1944 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Geneva Cross, the obverse with white enameled arms, overlaid by a central black enameled German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, with feathering and details highlighted in gilt, the twelve oclock arm with an integral ring and suspension loop, in turn connecting