Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By B.h. Mayer Newly Listed Above the left breast pocket

Above the left breast pocket is a Canadian Volunteer Service Medal ribbon bar

measuring 20 mm (w) x 27 mm (h)

and willingness to sacrifice himself to save his comrades reflect the highest credit on himself

crazing in the finish

illustrating a wrong-reading RAF wings insignia

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By B.h. Mayer Newly Listed Above the left breast pocket(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 banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 26 for