Germany, Hj. A Rare Standard Bearer’s Gorget, With Photo, By C.e. Juncker consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac marked below with the Meissen

marked below with the Meissen manufacturing crossed swords insignia

Almost three years later

Footnote: The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM)

Ten weeks after his heroics at Fresnoy

With only minor fatigue evident

Germany, Hj. A Rare Standard Bearer’s Gorget, With Photo, By C.e. Juncker consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac marked below with the Meissen(HJ Ringkragen fr Fahnentrger mit Foto). Constructed of silvered and patinated bronze, the obverse bearing a central raised HJ style German national eagle clutching a sword and mallet and overlaid by a swastika, executed in high relief and exceptional detail, topped by a banner bearing a stamped issue number of 590, with ribbed rivets set into both top corner, the reverse retaining a fully intact field grey wool liner, the reverse topped by two prongs