Germany, Wehrmacht. An Early And Scarce 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case And Bearer Photograph Auction (SA-Reiterplakette)

(SA-Reiterplakette)

OOST-AZIË-ZUID-PACIFIC 1942-1945

Heberlein was drafted and returned to Bavaria

edged by white (Weiß) Waffenfarbe piping

original ribbon with horizontal pinback bar

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Early And Scarce 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case And Bearer Photograph Auction (SA-Reiterplakette)(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui und Bild). 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 raised crimped barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, an early type,