Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Cloth Version, Certified by Dietrich Maerz Auction Archive a portrait of a recipient

a portrait of a recipient of the Knight’s Cross with oakleaves and swords

Medal for Loyalty and Defence Capacity 1918-1938 (AKA Organized Volunteers Medal) (in bronze gilt

in tombac (gilding nearly completely rubbed off)

reverse marked TANFANI & BERTARELLI in the center

The edges are crisp and the tip has still retained its sharpness

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Cloth Version, Certified by Dietrich Maerz Auction Archive a portrait of a recipient(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse, Stoffausfhrung). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of black and grey wool with silver aluminum wire, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse featuring a machine embroidered silver aluminum wire frame frame with ribbing executed in a pebbled format, with a dark grey wool core, the six oclock arm with a date of 1939 similarly constructed of silver aluminum wire, with a central black wool