Germany, Third Reich. A Cased Iron Cross 1939 First Class, Screw-back Version, by B.H. Mayer Archive signed and stamped

signed and stamped

(Braunschweig) Order of Henry the Lion (Herzoglich Braunschweigischer Orden Heinrichs des Löwen)

then were seen to rush to plane - presumably to save the pilot - and they were believed to be local partizans or guerrillas

ranging from very fine to extremely fine

consisting of a main cord crafted of multiple thick strands of twisted bullion cords

Germany, Third Reich. A Cased Iron Cross 1939 First Class, Screw-back Version, by B.H. Mayer Archive signed and stamped(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse im Etui). Reinstituted September 1st, 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a slightly vaulted 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 screw back and a pin on the twelve oclock arm, marked L 18 for manufacture by B. H. Mayer of