Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Rudolf Souval, Vienna Archive 000 Gross Register Tons (GRT)

000 Gross Register Tons (GRT) of merchant shipping as First Watch Officer aboard U-48

returning to the Battalion on the 7th

The underside of both the reverse exterior cover and the reverse interior cover display the same marks as those used on the underside of the obverse exterior cover

Memory good

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Rudolf Souval, Vienna Archive 000 Gross Register Tons (GRT)A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, 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 banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Rudolf Souval, Vienna, measuring 44. 54 mm (w) x 44. 81