The owner was Kurt Gelbrecht
the twelve o’clock arm with an integral loop accommodating a privately made cast silver gilt suspension with a green enameled laurel wreath thereby indicating a second award
measuring 410 mm (across shoulders)
Footnote: George William Cruise was born on August 16
1842 at Fort Benjamin Harrison
Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, With Case Auction Archive The owner was Kurt Gelbrecht(Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 13. Mrz 1938 mit Etui). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing two raised figures, one of which is clutching a flag and the other a length of broken chain, above a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central date of 13. MRZ 1938, circumscribed by an inscription of EIN VOLK, EIN