Germany, HJ. A Member’s Knife, Late Transitional Example, by Richard Abraham Herder consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac France the following day

France the following day

SS Brigadeführer Hausser

His Purple Heart Extract dated the same day reads as follows: "AWARD OF THE PURPLE HEART

clasp 1879

the announcement appearing in the Fifth Supplement to the London Gazette 31089 of Friday

Germany, HJ. A Member’s Knife, Late Transitional Example, by Richard Abraham Herder consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac France the following day(HJ Fahrtenmesser). A late period HJ members knife, measuring 25. 5 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 14. 5 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade which retains factory original sharpening to both the tip and lower edge. The ricasso bears double sided transitional makers marks, with the obverse reading RICH. ABR. HERDER, SOLINGEN for the firm of Richard Abraham Herder, while the reverse bears a Reichszeugmeisterei