Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case United Republic of (1855-1918 Issue)

(1855-1918 Issue)

24 mm x 25

Speck von Sternburg apparently lost his way and instead ended up dropping six bombs on the RAF night fighter station of Coltishall in the county of Norfolk

along with overall surface wear

measuring 52 mm x 49 mm

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case United Republic of (1855-1918 Issue)(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 raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 44. 12 mm (w) x 44. 08 mm (h),