Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Wächtler & Lange visually-hidden the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered

the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey inscription of “GESCHWADER HORST WESSEL” in Fraktur script

some deterioration of the visor and sweatband

including a matching set of Luftwaffe Flak/Artillery Feldwebel shoulder straps

that his religion was Church of England and that his trade was that of Logger

arriving by the War end in Austria

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Wächtler & Lange visually-hidden the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered(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 block hinge and narrow banjo style pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, the reverse of the pinback maker