Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern People’s Medal, I Class With Swords, Gold Grade Auction Archive and a fierce battle between

and a fierce battle between Poles and Germans at Kaniów (May 10

Accompanied by a reproduced studio photograph of Jeckstat with his wife Trudel Jung

dark patinas on the two medals

marked on reverse with Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) logo and code “M1/25” for maker Rudolf Reiling

and in carrying out

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern People’s Medal, I Class With Swords, Gold Grade Auction Archive and a fierce battle between(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker 1. Klasse Gold mit Schwertern). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant star overlaid by crossed swords, with a central six petalled rosette, set within a circular laurel leaf wreath with a ribbed border, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flattened catch, unmarked, measuring 49. 78