An Exceedingly Rare German Order; "Dead Hero Order" Recovered From The Zimmermann Factory certificate_of_authenticity on suspension bar inscribed "AL

on suspension bar inscribed "AL MERITO" (For Merit) with ribbon and elongated hanger with stickpin attachment

including ones over Noball and Hemmingstedt

Ontario on December 29

the Austro-Hungarian flag at the top of the wreath and an Iron Cross at the bottom

Calcutta Mint Issue

An Exceedingly Rare German Order; "Dead Hero Order" Recovered From The Zimmermann Factory certificate_of_authenticity on suspension bar inscribed "ALNeck Cross, bronze, with partially enameled on on one side, in "as found" condition (from "Zimmermann Hoard"), thus in fair poor condition. Nonetheless an extremely rare award. Footnote: Zimmermann was a well known German manufacturer of a great variety of awards, German as well as International, that was destroyed in an allied bombing raid in the early 1940's on Pforzheim, Germany. Sometime during the 1990's, during construction on the former factory