Germany, Wehrmacht. A Pair of 1939 Iron Crosses I Class, Maker Marked Examples Newly Listed A superb and exceedingly scarce

A superb and exceedingly scarce Austrian made award commissioned by the Qing Government for foreign recipients in Western countries

a second portrait of a Heer NCO

both buttons unmarked

the obverse consisting of an oval wreath topped by a Heer-style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika

after basic training

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Pair of 1939 Iron Crosses I Class, Maker Marked Examples Newly Listed A superb and exceedingly scarce(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). A pair of 1939 Iron Crosses I Class, including: 1. One 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 raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback maker marked with