Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, with Case, by the Vienna Mint Auction Archive of early period manufacture circa

of early period manufacture circa early 1900’s

The sweatband is stamped “Real Russia Leather”

measuring 230 mm (w) x 296 mm (h) x 53 mm (d)

with the single rank of Grand Cordon

encompassed by a wreath of half oak leaves and half laurel leaves tied with a ribbon in a bow at the bottom and topped with a crown

Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, with Case, by the Vienna Mint Auction Archive of early period manufacture circa(Die Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 13. Mrz 1938 mit Etui). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing two raised figures, one of which is clutching a flag and the other a length of broken chain, above a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a central date of 13. MRZ 1938, circumscribed by an inscription of EIN VOLK, EIN