Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class United Republic of 000 long tons

000 long tons

with central onyx cameo bust of Queen Victoria and rose diamonds set legend

credited with having served forty-nine months overseas

1st Battalion Canadian Machine Gun Corps: First manual is entitled "Manual of Field Engineering

the son of Civil War general Rufus King

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class United Republic of 000 long tons(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). 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 barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 44. 14 mm (w) x 44. 65 mm (h), weighing 17. 8