Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Schinkel-Style By Wilhelm Deumer Buy Now The top of the case

The top of the case features a plate of an early type SA belt buckle (note the sunshine-wheel swastika)

naming his next-of-kin as Thomas Elmitt of Ottawa

and Victory Medal (511851 PTE

impressed ARGENT on the rim

According to his Flugbuch he started training with the Imperial Air Force on board the Albatros

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Schinkel-Style By Wilhelm Deumer Buy Now The top of the case(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a crimped wraparound hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture