Germany, Imperial. An 1813 Iron Cross II Class, Centenary Example Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic (1918 issue)

(1918 issue)

bearing a machine-embroidered green threaded police-style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

overlaid by a semi-circular laurel leaf wreath joined together at the bottom by a shield bearing a hammer and sickle

the former bearing Wünnenberg’s handwritten signature in blue ink

standing before the Marien-Castle

Germany, Imperial. An 1813 Iron Cross II Class, Centenary Example Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic (1918 issue)(Eisernes Kreuz 1813 II. Klasse, Museumsstck). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse plain, the reverse with three central oak leaves, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1813, the twelve oclock arm with initials FW topped by a royal crown, unmarked, measuring 42. 34 mm (w) x 47. 10 mm