Germany, Third Reich. A Cased Iron Cross 1939 First Class, Screw-back Version, by B.H. Mayer GTRexclude reposing especial Trust and Confidence

reposing especial Trust and Confidence in you Loyalty

named to Breidenbach as a Matrosenhauptgefreiter serving on board the destroyer “Erich Koellner” (scuttled on 13 April 1940 after being damaged by the Royal Navy during the Battle of Narvik)

MP: hardcover

The Führer congratulates them and wishes them long and happy sunset years with their family

signed in black ink by both the Reeve and Clerk

Germany, Third Reich. A Cased Iron Cross 1939 First Class, Screw-back Version, by B.H. Mayer GTRexclude reposing especial Trust and Confidence(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse im Etui). Reinstituted September 1st, 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a slightly vaulted 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 screw back and a pin on the twelve oclock arm, marked L 18 for manufacture by B. H. Mayer of