Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By B.h. Mayer, Dietrich Maerz Collection United Republic of maker marked "SPINK & SON

maker marked "SPINK & SON Ltd LONDON"

to honour those persons who participated in combat during the 1918 and 1919 Wielkopolski Uprisings

Footnote: The medal was issued by the Honourable East India Company to British and Indian troops from India who formed a Division under Major General Baird

It is a first edition

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By B.h. Mayer, Dietrich Maerz Collection United Republic of maker marked "SPINK & SON(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). 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 barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by the firm of B. H. Mayer, Pforzheim,