Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Paul Meybauer, With Case, Dietrich Maerz Collection Auction Archive fine black wool base

fine black wool base

and Military Hospitaller Order of St

exhibiting surface rust

Schaumburg-Lippe

his personnel and medical records cannot be sourced due to a fire in 1973

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Paul Meybauer, With Case, Dietrich Maerz Collection Auction Archive fine black wool base(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). 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 screwback attachment with backplate, marked with LDO code L 13 for maker Paul Meybauer, Berlin, measuring 44. 44 mm (w)