Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Rudolf Souval Newly Listed contact wear to obverse

contact wear to obverse

composed of 18 links

reverse stamped "123 CANADIANS CE"

This Battalion became the first Empire unit to provide the King's Guard at Buckingham Palace in London

the the obverse depicting the rightward facing bust of Kaiser Karl

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Rudolf Souval Newly Listed contact wear to obverse(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). 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 banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of