Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Rudolf Souval Archive as "new old stock"

as "new old stock"

He signed his Attestation Paper as a Lieutenant with the 2nd Infantry Battalion "Eastern Ontario Regiment"

six measuring 139x89mm

having died on June 11

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Rudolf Souval Archive as "new old stock"(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 banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by