Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare German Cross In Silver, By C.f. Zimmermann Archive blue enameled surround with Latin

blue enameled surround with Latin motto Auspicium Melioris Ævi (Token of a Better Age)

Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration (silver gilt

each measuring 31 mm (w) x 48 mm (h)

North Carolina was "the most beautiful thing they had ever seen"

Constructed of a black rayon blend

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare German Cross In Silver, By C.f. Zimmermann Archive blue enameled surround with Latin(Deutsches Kreuz in Silber). Instituted 28 September 1941. (1941 1945 issue). Constructed of cupal with and enamels, the obverse consisting of a double overlaid right pointed starburst pattern, with a central silvered disc overlaid by a black enameled mobile swastika, within a circular silvered laurel leaf wreath, wrapped in ribbon and joined together at the bottom by a plaque bearing a date of 1941, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering