Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939 I. Class, by Fritz Zimmermann Hold In a Medical Revision Board

In a Medical Revision Board Certificate

circumscribed by an inscription of “TREUE DIENSTE BEI DER FAHNE” (“FAITHFUL SERVICE TO THE FLAG”)

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Constructed of three white gull-shaped patches sewn onto a black wool backer with the addition of a horizontally oriented white rectangle sewn directly below the gulls to signify the rank of Hauptmann

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939 I. Class, by Fritz Zimmermann Hold In a Medical Revision Board(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). A textbook example of an Iron Cross 1939 First Class by Fritz Zimmermann of Stuttgart. Consisting of a Cross Patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse is plain, with a barrel hinge, a slender banjo style vertical pinback, and a