Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Paul Meybauer Archive Republic medals:

Republic medals:

the reverse plain with a vertical needle style pinback

General Assault Badge in silvered zinc

Poor handwriting can be attributed in part to the loss of his left arm in an accident with a firearm while hunting with Franz Ritter von Epp on September 4

This rare and interesting piece is probably from the late 19th or early 20th Century

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Paul Meybauer Archive Republic medals:(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). 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 block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of