Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Variant, by Alois Rettenmaier Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic contact marks evident on the

contact marks evident on the reverse and on the pin

With original Jakob Bengel packet of issue

Initially it was placed in northern France and fought enemy ships in the British Channel

with light signs of ageing from storage

compass and level in working order

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Variant, by Alois Rettenmaier Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic contact marks evident on the(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse an Schraubscheibe). 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 central threaded screw post, with a stabilizer emanating from the twelve oclock arm, marked with LDO code L59