featuring a white enamelled Maltese cross with a highly detailed and delicately etched Gold griffin in each quadrant
second pattern national eagle
but was a recipient of the Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918
and later served with SS-Totenkopf-Regiment 10 (transitioning to SS-Infanterie-Regiment 10 through 1940)
with its period original ribbon - with a collector’s tag on the reverse
Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by B.H. Mayer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic featuring a white enamelled Maltese(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 barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting around wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 26 for