Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Cloth Version, With Dietrich Maerz Certification Hold RUE DU 4 SEPTEMBRE PARIS"

RUE DU 4 SEPTEMBRE PARIS" on the white satin inside lid

Footnote: Destroyer Z14 Friedrich Ihn was a Type 1934A-class destroyer built in the mid 1930s

A 1939 “Tag des Deutschen Handwerks” badge

Award document for German Cross in Gold (26 July 1944)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Cloth Version, With Dietrich Maerz Certification Hold RUE DU 4 SEPTEMBRE PARIS"(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse, Stoffausfhrung). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of black wool, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse featuring machine embroidered silver aluminum wire arms border on the interior with flat wire simulating the pebbling of a metal cross, with a central machine embroidered black mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a machine embroidered date of 1939, the reverse featuring a field grey