Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Paul Meybauer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac (Auto-Diagramm)

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Three piece construction

while with the 50th Regiment

a 2nd Lieutenant named John

blue enameled script cartouche denoting issue for non-Muslim

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Paul Meybauer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac (Auto-Diagramm)(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). 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 tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of