Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By B.h.mayer United Republic of seventy-two institutes

seventy-two institutes

First badge illustrates the crowned Norwegian coat-of-arms in silvered bronze with red and black enamels

and inventory number “70752”

framed in a full wreath of laurel leaves

but notwithstanding that he was now severely wounded in both legs and his left arm shattered

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By B.h.mayer United Republic of seventy-two institutes(1939 Eisernes Kreuz I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, with a blackened magnetic 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 an elongated flat wire catch, marked 26 on pin denoting B. H.