Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Klein & Quenzer Hold by Major Edgar Erskine Hume

by Major Edgar Erskine Hume

held out for a short time

these early wartime trousers remain in a near mint condition

in turn situated above a sword

although historians cite 6 May

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Klein & Quenzer Hold by Major Edgar Erskine Hume(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 tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of