Germany, Weimar Republic. An Equestrian Federation (Drv) Award For Merit In Raising And Training Of German Horses, Named To Karl Rusch consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac The upper left arm bears

The upper left arm bears a sleeve insignia in the form of a machine-embroidered green thread Schutzpolizei-style German national eagle clutching a black mobile swastika on a grey wool background

At the behest of American newspaper publisher Willaim Randolph Hearst

contact to enamels otherwise extremely fine

a Republic sun insignia on the pommel's cap with denting present

which was being fought out at the same time

Germany, Weimar Republic. An Equestrian Federation (Drv) Award For Merit In Raising And Training Of German Horses, Named To Karl Rusch consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac The upper left arm bears(Deutscher Reiterliche Vereinigung Leistungsplakette). In bronze gilt, obverse illustrating a man on a chariot pulled by three horses on the left and a man in flowing robes on horseback on the right, a plaque below bearing the German Horse Riding Association insignia and inscribed "FR BESONDERE VERDIENSTE Herrn Karl Rusch DEUTSCHE REITERLICHE VEREINIGUNG (F. N.) HAUPTVERBAND FR ZUCHT UND PRFUNG DEUTSCHER PFERDE e. V.", the wording in raised text, the