Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, With Case Auction Archive 1842 at Fort Benjamin Harrison

1842 at Fort Benjamin Harrison

(Orden der Eisernen Krone III

measuring 182 mm (l) x 106 mm (h)

measuring 410 mm (across shoulders)

the twelve o’clock arm with an integral loop accommodating a privately made cast silver gilt suspension with a green enameled laurel wreath thereby indicating a second award

Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, With Case Auction Archive 1842 at Fort Benjamin Harrison(Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 13. Mrz 1938 mit Etui). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing two raised figures, one of which is clutching a flag and the other a length of broken chain, above a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central date of 13. MRZ 1938, circumscribed by an inscription of EIN VOLK, EIN