Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Klein & Quenzer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Instituted September 6 1885

Instituted September 6 1885

exhibiting silvering wear and traces of greening on the obverse

measuring 18 mm in diameter to the outer edges

generally carry the letters OP after their names

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Klein & Quenzer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Instituted September 6 1885(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, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 65 for Klein &