Austria, Imperial. A German Knight’s Order, Marian Neck Cross Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic intact enamels and cabochons

intact enamels and cabochons

the obverse with a central SA-style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika within a ribbed ring bearing oak leaves

Constructed of a silvered bronze alloy with a blackened non-magnetic core

good very fine (7) Footnote:Charles Francis Winter was born in Montreal

to join a Combined Forces Expedition team to the Antarctic

Austria, Imperial. A German Knight’s Order, Marian Neck Cross Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic intact enamels and cabochons(Marienkreuz des Deutschen Ritterordens). Instituted on March 26, 1871. (Issued 1885 1918). A silver Latin cross with black and white enameled arms, the obverse with a red enameled Geneva cross on a white field, surrounded by a black ring of enamels, inscribed ORDO TEUT HUMANITATI in capital lettering, the reverse with a similar white field, dated 1871, surrounded by a ring of black enamels, on a loop for suspension from its period original neck