Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, I Class, By Wilhelm Deumer Auction rank and date of award

rank and date of award

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Mabel Warner

bearing the legend “MUSSERT 1941” and circumscribed by “HOU EN TROU” and oak leaf branches

illustrating a wrong-reading RAF wings insignia

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, I Class, By Wilhelm Deumer Auction rank and date of award(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Instituted on 1. 9. 1939. (Issued 1939 1945). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse plain with a barrel hinge and vertical banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, marked 3 on reverse for maker Wilhelm Deumer,