Germany, Hj. A Rare Standard Bearer’s Gorget, With Photo, By C.e. Juncker consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac marked with a serial number

marked with a serial number of “4163428”

Footnote: Zimmermann was a well known German manufacturer of a great variety of awards

Footnote: The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM)

marked below with the Meissen manufacturing crossed swords insignia

With only minor fatigue evident

Germany, Hj. A Rare Standard Bearer’s Gorget, With Photo, By C.e. Juncker consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac marked with a serial number(HJ Ringkragen fr Fahnentrger mit Foto). Constructed of silvered and patinated bronze, the obverse bearing a central raised HJ style German national eagle clutching a sword and mallet and overlaid by a swastika, executed in high relief and exceptional detail, topped by a banner bearing a stamped issue number of 590, with ribbed rivets set into both top corner, the reverse retaining a fully intact field grey wool liner, the reverse topped by two prongs