Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Klein & Quenzer Hold one with scalloped edges

one with scalloped edges

the announcement appearing in the Fifth Supplement to the London Gazette 31185 of Friday

by Major Edgar Erskine Hume

on loop for suspension - marked “95” for “Adolf Scholtze

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Klein & Quenzer Hold one with scalloped edges(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