Germany, Imperial. A Pair Of Patriotic Iron Cross Brooches Auction and six People's Republic awards:

and six People's Republic awards: Order of 9 September 1944

and after a few months the middle finger had to be amputated as well

on a loop for suspension from an award chain

They contain all 687 recipients of the Pour le Mérite

and it has been removed from uniform

Germany, Imperial. A Pair Of Patriotic Iron Cross Brooches Auction and six People's Republic awards:Germany, Imperial. An Iron Cross Patriotic Sweetheart Pin, A First War period German brooch constructed from a gilded piece of an artillery shell driving band, featuring a central oak branch, the left and right read 1914 1917, the reverse bears a horizontal pinback, attached below is a black enamelled 1914 Iron Cross, measuring 41. 46 mm (w) x 13. 89 mm (h); Germany, Imperial. An Iron Cross Patriotic Sweetheart Pin, A First War period German brooch