Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, I Class, By Wilhelm Deumer Auction rank and date of award

rank and date of award

bearing the legend “MUSSERT 1941” and circumscribed by “HOU EN TROU” and oak leaf branches

Very fine and uncommon in that form

almost to the man

illustrating a wrong-reading RAF wings insignia

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, I Class, By Wilhelm Deumer Auction rank and date of award(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Instituted on 1. 9. 1939. (Issued 1939 1945). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse plain with a barrel hinge and vertical banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, marked 3 on reverse for maker Wilhelm Deumer,