Germany, Wehrmacht. A Pair of 1939 Iron Crosses I Class, Maker Marked Examples certificate_of_authenticity International Banknote Society Life Member

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book design by Robert Biondi

The latter end bears a reverse handwritten owner’s name of “BIRNBAUM”

maker marked JOHANN MAURER WIEN & SOPRON

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Pair of 1939 Iron Crosses I Class, Maker Marked Examples certificate_of_authenticity International Banknote Society Life Member(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). A pair of 1939 Iron Crosses I Class, including: 1. One 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 raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback maker marked with