Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Wilhelm Deumer Province of China stretchers

stretchers

he reportedly hit himself and wept bitterly before sinking into unconsciousness

on the original ribbon with red stripes

SOUTH AFRICA 1902 (7328 PTE J

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Wilhelm Deumer Province of China stretchers(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). 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 block hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 11 for WIlhelm Deumer, Ldenscheid,