An Early Iron Cross 1939 First Class By Fritz Zimmermann Of Stuttgart Archive on period sash

on period sash

Munich manufacture

1939-1945 -  Bronze

brooch pin catch broken

The hospital consisted of eleven concrete buildings

An Early Iron Cross 1939 First Class By Fritz Zimmermann Of Stuttgart Archive on period sashAn Iron Cross 1939 First Class Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse; white metal cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a white metal ribbed border; the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm; the reverse plain, with a vertical slender banjo style pinback, a barrel hinge, and a slightly rounded wire catch; marked 6 on the pinback for Fritz