Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, Silver Medal Of Merit, By The Prussian Mint certificate_of_authenticity while out with a 'lady'

while out with a 'lady'

with a magnetic metal core

In a letter on Department of National Defence addressed to the Chief of the Air Staff

Footnote: The award was scarcely issued during the 1990s

Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, Silver Medal Of Merit, By The Prussian Mint certificate_of_authenticity while out with a 'lady'(Orden vom Deutschen Adler, Verdienstmedaille in Silber). Instituted 1 May 1937. (1937 1943 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with its arms joined through the quadrants by NSDAP style German national eagles clutching wreathed mobile swastikas, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of DEUTSCHE VERDIENST MEDAILLE (GERMAN MERIT