Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Friedrich Orth Auction Archive Frank Billinge and Arthur Randell

Frank Billinge and Arthur Randell

especially their popularization among Christianized Slavs

Czechoslovakian War Cross 1914-1918 - Type I (1918-1920)  Light bronze gilt version

1915 and was taken on strength at the Canadian Corps Depot at Shorncliffe on September 10th

surmounting by an enameled Imperial crown

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Friedrich Orth Auction Archive Frank Billinge and Arthur Randell(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and brass, consisting of a Cross Patte with a non magnetic blackened brass 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 pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 15