Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Rudolf Souval Auction MILANO VIA ALBANI N 20"

MILANO VIA ALBANI N 20" on the button hole attachment

3 Platoon moved twelve times in eight weeks

We had not gone very far when the firing commenced again in our front

72mm(height)

As the British broke into our lines that day the Minenwerfer position had to be abandoned

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Rudolf Souval Auction MILANO VIA ALBANI N 20"(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 banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of