Description
entitled "Osmanli Madalyalari ve Nişanlari
" (Melbourne) on the reverse
the reverse bearing a central raised inscription of “FÜR KRIEGS- HILFSDIENST” (“FOR VOLUNTARY WAR AID”)
with each arm composed of clusters of individual beaded rays
including studio portraits of Mahnovski alone and with family
Germany, Third Reich. An Order of the German Eagle, V Class Cross with Swords, by C.F Zimmermann Auction Archive entitled "Osmanli Madalyalari ve Nişanlari(Orden vom Deutschen Adler, Kreuz V. Klasse mit Schwertern). Instituted 1 May 1937. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded silver, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms, joined through the quadrants by gilded NSDAP style German national eagles clutching wreathed mobile swastikas on white enameled discs, the obverse overlaid across the three and nine oclock arm with crossed swords, the twelve oclock arm topped by a fan suspension