Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Gold, with Case visually-hidden which set up shop in

which set up shop in the outer layers of human skin

it had been framed at one time

2 Section of the Skilled Railway Employees

the cap measures approximately 19 cm (w) x 28 cm (l) x 16 cm (h)

on loop for suspension with the period original ribbon

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Gold, with Case visually-hidden which set up shop in(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker I. Klasse Gold mit Etui). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant starburst, bearing a central raised rosette, situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and wide vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 49. 94 mm (w) x 49. 52 mm (h), weighing 21. 8 grams,