Germany, Wehrmacht. An Early 1939 Iron Cross, I Class Auction Archive in and around Lens

in and around Lens

Wiglesworth was mentioned in a Despatch from Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig

Balevski created a method of casting under pressure for light metal alloys in which

measuring 36 mm (w) x 39 mm (h - inclusive of integral ring)

parade-mounted to a suspension with pinback

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Early 1939 Iron Cross, I Class Auction Archive in and around Lens(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Instituted on 1. 9. 1939. (Issued 1939 1945). An early cross with many features similar to those first war issue crosses, of multi piece construction with a blackened non magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse plain with a barrel hinge and narrow banjo style pinback meeting a round