Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Deschler & Sohn Archive All with maker's mark

All with maker's mark

new-old stock Waffen-SS Signals enlisted man’s shoulder boards

A special ID (211x148mm

a New York Times correspondent wrote:

An Iron Cross Second Class 1939 by Wilhelm Deumer - Frosted silver frame

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Deschler & Sohn Archive All with maker's mark(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1. Klasse). Instituted on 1. 9. 1939. (Issued 1939 1945). 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 banjo style vertical pinback, a barrel hinge and flat wire catch, marked L10 on pinback for maker Deschler & Sohn, Mnchen on