surrounded by an extremely well detailed oak wreath
centering two rank "gulls" and oakleaf half wreath
in addition to being cotton lined
and the good example set in their communities and country
semblance of red paint in the recessed areas
Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Rudolf Souval Newly Listed surrounded by an extremely well(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). 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 reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by Rudolf Souval, Vienna, measuring 44. 56