Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Gold with Case, by Wächtler & Lange visually-hidden One of the adjustment knobs

One of the adjustment knobs is maker marked “ZF4/S CARL ZEISS JENA DDR”

consisting of 1) A Winter Campaign Medal ribbon

and a Reproduction Photograph of Davidson in Uniform (black and white

ORANGE FREE STATE (1633 3RD CL TPR

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Gold with Case, by Wächtler & Lange visually-hidden One of the adjustment knobs(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker, I. Klasse in Gold mit Etui). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed starburst, bearing a central raised rosette, situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, in turn surrounded by a pebbled border, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from an oval plate, the