Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Mayor’s Medal, Ludwigswinkel Municipality, by Fritz Mannheim consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Saxe-Ernestine House Order Knight’s Cross

Saxe-Ernestine House Order Knight’s Cross 2nd Class with Swords certificate

Footnote: Grenadier Regiment 943 was established in December of 1943 in Brittany

(Heer Schirmmütze für einen Offizier der Jäger/Gebirgsjäger)

the obverse bearing two left-facing soldiers bearing guns in the foreground and a mountainous background with a star at the top and rays towards the mountains

Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Mayor’s Medal, Ludwigswinkel Municipality, by Fritz Mannheim consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Saxe-Ernestine House Order Knight’s Cross(Burgomastermedaille). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original full length neck ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised and leftward facing profile of AH, circumscribed by name and title, the reverse bearing an engraved dedication of GEMEINDE LUDWIGSWINKEL, the reverse maker marked with the logo of Fritz Mannheim, Kaiserslautern, measuring 49. 87 mm in diameter, accompanied by its original package of issue,