Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Non-Magnetic, Vienna Maker Archive against the backdrop of Quedlinburg

against the backdrop of Quedlinburg Cathedral

20 April 1942

Canada: Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)

extremely fine condition with minor scratches

Footnote: The Order of Danilo I was the first Montenegrin dynastic and state Order established by Prince Danilo Petrović Njegoš in 1853

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Non-Magnetic, Vienna Maker Archive against the backdrop of Quedlinburg(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of a non magnetic metal, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened 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, unmarked but with the frame demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture