Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by B.H. Mayer Province of China The battalion fought in major

The battalion fought in major battles including the Somme

marked “Reichsverband 56 Pforzheim” on the reverse

each bearing a machine-embroidered black mobile swastika

spotting on the CFD

It grinds my mother’s gears

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by B.H. Mayer Province of China The battalion fought in major(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 tapering vertical pinback meeting a rounded catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code