Germany, Wehrmacht. An Early And Scarce 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case And Bearer Photograph Auction recording deaths and maltreatment by

recording deaths and maltreatment by Japanese guards

with the middle two digits of his service number unidentifiable

Prussian Observers Badge in silver with enameled centre

measuring 393mm (w) x 540mm (h)

edged by white (Weiß) Waffenfarbe piping

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Early And Scarce 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case And Bearer Photograph Auction recording deaths and maltreatment by(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui und Bild). 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 raised crimped barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, an early type,