Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Wächtler & Lange certificate_of_authenticity 44mm (x68mm including suspension)

44mm (x68mm including suspension)

maker marked "BB&B

along with the loosening of some pages and adhesive-related damage to some of the photos

that there was "some enlargement of the leg" and that Shaw "says it interferes with his walking and is unable to do any work that requires walking or standing long"

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Wächtler & Lange certificate_of_authenticity 44mm (x68mm including suspension)(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 banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 100