Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Paul Meybauer Hold 1941-45 period

1941-45 period

were in active service during the First War on the Western Front from April 1915 until armistice in November

mounter's embroidered name plate inscribed "R

with minor flecking of enamels

and the HJ motto “Blut und Ehre” (Blood and Honour)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Paul Meybauer Hold 1941-45 period(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of