Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased Iron Cross 1939 First Class, By Rudolf Wächtler & Lange Auction Archive Second Class - Franz Joseph

Second Class - Franz Joseph I

and a small tear in the upper right corner of the first page

impressed (F

"Virtuti pro patria" (Bravery for the fatherland)

he spent six years as an articled student with George Beaman

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased Iron Cross 1939 First Class, By Rudolf Wächtler & Lange Auction Archive Second Class - Franz Joseph(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1. Klasse im Etui). A cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed 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 slender banjo style vertical pinback, a barrel hinge, and a flat wire catch; marked L 55 for Rudolf Wchtler & Lange, Ldenscheid on the reverse; measuring 44. 00