Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class Auction just three days shy of

just three days shy of his nineteenth birthday

bearing central dates “1813-1814”

British War Medal (in silver

The exterior features are completed at the reverse with a vertical slit

marked with six Japanese characters

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class Auction just three days shy of(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, measuring 43. 97 mm (w) x 43. 96 mm (h), weighing