Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Cloth Version United Republic of after heavy fighting took Chodaczkow-Wielki

after heavy fighting took Chodaczkow-Wielki and attacked further along to the northeast on Tarnopol

residue present on the centrepiece and on the arm at 12 o'clock on the reverse

pinned with a gilded bronze rank pip

published in 1976 at Margate and printed by Watson Ferguson & Company of Brisbane

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Cloth Version United Republic of after heavy fighting took Chodaczkow-Wielki(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse, Stoffausfhrung). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). An extremely well preserved cloth version of the 1939 Iron Cross I Class, consisting of a Cross Patte with a black wool base, the obverse with a hand embroidered silver aluminum wire frame, with a central hand embroidered black mobile swastika, the reverse with the remnants of an adhesive, unmarked, measuring 52 mm (w) x 52 mm (h), weighing 3. 5 grams,