Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Klein & Quenzer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic and Order of Partisan Star

and Order of Partisan Star

sterling and gold filled

III Class (in copper gilt on bronze with red enamels

the reverse with a central inscription of “FÜR TAPFERKEIT” (“FOR BRAVERY”)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Klein & Quenzer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic and Order of Partisan Star(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). 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 block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of