Austria, Imperial. Order of the Knights of Malta, I Class Merit Cross visually-hidden One featuring SS-Hauptsturmführer and later-Bundeswehr

One featuring SS-Hauptsturmführer and later-Bundeswehr Oberstleutnant Heinrich Sonne (Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross

"27th April 1965

missing its buckram core

As of February 24

Austria, Imperial. Order of the Knights of Malta, I Class Merit Cross visually-hidden One featuring SS-Hauptsturmführer and later-Bundeswehr(Souverner Malteseorden I. Klasse Verdienstkreuz mit Kriegsdekoration). Constructed of gilded silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of an Anchor Cross with white enamelled arms, the obverse with a central red enamelled medallion bearing a white enamelled Maltese cross, surrounded by a ring of white enamel bearing a gilt inscription of MIL. ORDO EQUITUM MELIT BENE MERENTI (MILITARY ORDER OF MERIT), the reverse medallion featuring a white