Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross In Silver, By Steinhauer & Lück certificate_of_authenticity Siebrecht)

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unmarked by with hand-etched inscription of “Krey”

/KG 30 dive-bombed and damaged the battleship HMS Rodney and sank the destroyer HMS Gurkha

Footnote: Laurence Ormsby Pearce was born and bred in Johannesburg

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross In Silver, By Steinhauer & Lück certificate_of_authenticity Siebrecht)(Spanienkreuz in Silber). Constructed of a nickel silver plated alloy, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central raised mobile swastika, the arms joined through the quadrants by Luftwaffe style German national eagles clutching mobile swastika, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 4 for Steinhauer & Lck, Ldenscheid, measuring