Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, I Class, 1957 Model Newly Listed A rare award plaque

A rare award plaque

printed in black ink on a white card stock

Upon Arrival at Cape Town

Iron Cross 2nd Class 1914 (silver with black enamels

8 mm ribbon bar

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, I Class, 1957 Model Newly Listed A rare award plaque(Eisernes Kreuz, 1939, 1. Klasse, 1957 Modell). Instituted 10 March 1813 by King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia. A white metal cross paty with blackened magnetic iron cross paty imposed within a white metal hatched border, the obverse centre bears oak leaves and the 6 oclock arm bears the date 1939, the obverse is plain and bears a vertical flat pinback with a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 44. 02 mm (w) x 44. 09 mm (h), weighing 16. 6 g, very