Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By C.f. Zimmermann, From The Dietrich Maerz Collection Auction Archive Award document (19th May 1943)

Award document (19th May 1943) for Iron Cross 2nd Class (signed by Dietrich Peltz “Angriffsführer England”)

number 61173

inscribed in Japanese "World Week Competition Souvenir Medal by Current Event Newsletter Office 1928

arriving in England on the 14th

for a Grenadier Gefreiter (Two Gulls) in a Luftwaffe Ground Division

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By C.f. Zimmermann, From The Dietrich Maerz Collection Auction Archive Award document (19th May 1943)(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 barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback marked on the reverse with code 20 for maker C.