Anhalt, Duchy. A Friedrich Cross For Combatants, Pinback Version certificate_of_authenticity with a rounded edge

with a rounded edge

measuring 71 mm (w) x 70 mm (h)

The shashka completes with a highly-detailed brass hilt bearing a stylized Soviet sickle and hammer coat of arms

He volunteered for the Waffen-SS on January 15

with an "attack daily expected"

Anhalt, Duchy. A Friedrich Cross For Combatants, Pinback Version certificate_of_authenticity with a rounded edge(Friedrich Kreuz). Instituted 12 December 1914 by Duke Friedrich II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of bronze, consisting of a convex Cross Patte with its arms joined through the quadrants by a circular oak leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a central monogram of Duke Friedrich II, the six oclock arm bearing an institution date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm bearing a raised crown, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback