Germany, Kriegsmarine. A 1941 Birthday Greeting from AH to Admiral Otto Schniewind, with Photographs consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac chipping evident in the green

chipping evident in the green enamels at the tip of the star points at 12 o'clock and 5 o'clock

one Finland

each pocket with fold over weather flaps

32 mm x 81 mm

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A 1941 Birthday Greeting from AH to Admiral Otto Schniewind, with Photographs consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac chipping evident in the green(Reichspost Geburtstagsgru von AH). A rare personalized birthday greeting from AH, transmitted via Reichspost telegram, featuring a brief message from the Fhrer to Admiral Otto Schniewind (Knights Cross of the Iron Cross, 20 April 1940), dated 14 December 1941 and issued to Schniewind in the field, measuring 21 cm (w) x 15 cm (h), demonstrating minor creasing, a superb example of correspondence from the highest echelons of the Third Reich to a noted