Can anyone tell me who made this bronze Spanish Cross w/o swords? Can they be roughly dated as well?:
This cross is the first piece of German militaria I ever obtained. When I was 10 years old in the mid 1970's I traded for it with Michigan kid who summered with relatives down here. I gave him bag of real fireworks from Tennessee (the kind that go "boom!") for the cross. Since those kind of fireworks were illegal in both Kentucky and Michigan I guess you could say I got an early taste of the contraband economy.
His uncle brought it back from the war but no one in family knew the circumstances.
I didn't even know exactly what award it was when I got it and bought my first reference book shortly afterwards so I could ID it.
Thanks for looking!
This cross is the first piece of German militaria I ever obtained. When I was 10 years old in the mid 1970's I traded for it with Michigan kid who summered with relatives down here. I gave him bag of real fireworks from Tennessee (the kind that go "boom!") for the cross. Since those kind of fireworks were illegal in both Kentucky and Michigan I guess you could say I got an early taste of the contraband economy.
His uncle brought it back from the war but no one in family knew the circumstances.
I didn't even know exactly what award it was when I got it and bought my first reference book shortly afterwards so I could ID it.
Thanks for looking!
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