Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By B.h. Mayer, Dietrich Maerz Collection United Republic of Footnote: The Spanish Cross was

Footnote: The Spanish Cross was a non-combatant version awarded for merit

It is a first edition

1941 he was transferred to the USS Prairie for instruction in the Fire Controlman Tender School

measuring 181 mm x 89 mm

to honour those persons who participated in combat during the 1918 and 1919 Wielkopolski Uprisings

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By B.h. Mayer, Dietrich Maerz Collection United Republic of Footnote: The Spanish Cross was(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). 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 barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by the firm of B. H. Mayer, Pforzheim,