Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version with Case, by B.H. Mayer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic black rayon construction

black rayon construction

with maker mark and silver marks at 6 o’clock

Second War Group of Three Attributed to Private (Lance Corporal) Charles Gustave Hansen

constructed of dark brown bakelite

An architectural competition held in the 1920s to choose a design for the complex described the project as follows: "The Palace

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version with Case, by B.H. Mayer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic black rayon construction(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse an Schraubscheibe 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 six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a central threaded screwpost retaining an original backplate, maker marked with LDO code L 18 for B. H.