Austria, Republic. An Order of the Knights of Malta, Grand Cross, by E. Gardino Cravanzola, c.1950 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac edge nicks and contact marks

edge nicks and contact marks on the BWM

measuring 15 cm (w) x 10 cm (h)

The scabbard completes with a functional throat spring catch

The recipient is Feldwebel (Sergeant) Hans Grünert of the 90th Panzer Grenadier Division

and the second to General der Panzertruppen von Paulus)

Austria, Republic. An Order of the Knights of Malta, Grand Cross, by E. Gardino Cravanzola, c.1950 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac edge nicks and contact marks(Souverner Ritter und Hospitalorden vom heiligen Johannes von Jerusalem von Rhodos und von Malta). Instituted circa 1099 (c. 1950 issue). The Sash Badge, in silver, silver gilt and red and white enamels, consisting of a four point cross bearing a central red enamelled medallion with a white enamelled Maltese Cross, surrounded by a white ring of enamels inscribed Mil. Ordo. Equitum Melit. Bene Merenti in gilt capitalized letters, the reverse medallion