Germany, Federal Republic. A Pour le Mérite, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1965 Newly Listed all retaining both reverse attachment

all retaining both reverse attachment prongs

with a space for placement of the ribbon as well as a recessed medal bed for the award

the document has been folded into quadrants and has been punched with five sets of dual eyelets

a laurel wreath in her raised right hand and a shield with the coat-of-arms of Ceylon in her left hand

Heinrich Doehle (1883-1963)

Germany, Federal Republic. A Pour le Mérite, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1965 Newly Listed all retaining both reverse attachment(Pour le Mrite, Museumsstck). Constructed of gilded bronze with enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with blue enameled, joined through the quadrants by double sided Prussian imperial eagles, the obverse three, six, and nine oclock arms bearing a gilt inscription of POUR LE MRITE, the twelve oclock bearing a crowned monogram of King Friedrich II, the twelve oclock arm topped by a fan suspension with a ring retaining an original length of neck