Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Paul Meybauer, With Case, Dietrich Maerz Collection Newly Listed United Kingdom: Royal Air Force

United Kingdom: Royal Air Force Sweetheart Pendant (bronze crown and eagle insignias

Ronald Thornley

Footnote: this particular unit was very small with probably few hundred Officers and Men at the most

with some mouse nips along edges of leather

bronze with white enamels

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Paul Meybauer, With Case, Dietrich Maerz Collection Newly Listed United Kingdom: Royal Air Force(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 six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a screwback attachment with backplate, marked with LDO code L 13 for maker Paul Meybauer, Berlin, measuring 44. 44 mm (w)