Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by B.H. Mayer GTRexclude a cross with pebbled interior

a cross with pebbled interior field

Issued in the name of the Croatian head of state Dr

the medal bed of a black felt

and a handwritten owner’s name of “H

Gordon's diaries arrived by a messenger

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by B.H. Mayer GTRexclude a cross with pebbled interior(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 barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a rounded catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 26 for B.