Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case GTRexclude high quality thick backing

high quality thick backing

Type III (1866-1914)

An HJ 1935-36 Team Skiing 3rd Place Award - In heavy silvered fine zinc

He was the son of Joseph John and Amy Selina Birch

the German Imperial flag in black

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case GTRexclude high quality thick backing(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Instituted on 1. 9. 1939. (Issued 1939 1945). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, with a blackened iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse plain with a barrel hinge and vertical banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 43. 85 mm (w) x 43. 94mm (h),