Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Descher & Sohn, Munich visually-hidden with a raised molded ridge

with a raised molded ridge running along the outer brim

A document constructed of off-white paper

both measuring 87

In Witness Whereof Our Governor General of Our Dominion of Canada hath hereunto set his hand and Seal at Our Government House in the City of Ottawa this First day of December in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-Three and in the Seventh Year of Our Reign

an Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 (Ehrenkreuz des Weltkriegs 1914/1918)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Descher & Sohn, Munich visually-hidden with a raised molded ridge(Eisernes Kreuze 1939 I. Klasse). 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 barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with LDO code L 10 for Descher & Sohn, Munich, measuring 44. 94 mm (w) x 45. 02 mm (h),