Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939 I. Class, by Fritz Zimmermann Hold Constructed of three white gull-shaped

Constructed of three white gull-shaped patches sewn onto a black wool backer with the addition of a horizontally oriented white rectangle sewn directly below the gulls to signify the rank of Hauptmann

It completes with a rounded and flattened pommel bearing double-sided

75 mm (w) x 25

United Kingdom: 1939-1945 Star: in bronze

circumscribed by an inscription of “TREUE DIENSTE BEI DER FAHNE” (“FAITHFUL SERVICE TO THE FLAG”)

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939 I. Class, by Fritz Zimmermann Hold Constructed of three white gull-shaped(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). A textbook example of an Iron Cross 1939 First Class by Fritz Zimmermann of Stuttgart. Consisting of 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 is plain, with a barrel hinge, a slender banjo style vertical pinback, and a