Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Rudolf Souval Auction measuring 385 mm in length

measuring 385 mm in length when inserted into the scabbard

Cole took sick while in the Crimea during the winter of 1854-1855 and was hospitalized in March 1855 in Scutari

Knight's Breast Badge

Type IV Silver

horizontal pinback (missing catch)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Rudolf Souval Auction measuring 385 mm in length(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 reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by Rudolf Souval, Vienna, measuring 44. 56