Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Wilhelm Deumer visually-hidden and 50cm across the shoulders

and 50cm across the shoulders

center eagle’s head in patinated nickel silver

but was known to have been a prolific signer of photos to the postwar collector community

A Soviet Order of the Red Banner of Labor

a Commemorative Sudetenland Medal ribbon

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Wilhelm Deumer visually-hidden and 50cm across the shoulders(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,