Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Paul Meybauer Hold (Feldbluse für Unterscharführer der SS-Totenkopfverbände)

(Feldbluse für Unterscharführer der SS-Totenkopfverbände)

gilt on the reverse

5 mm x 110 mm

Evelyn Smith Osborn of Fort Erie

The patch measures 54 mm (w) x 44 mm (h)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Paul Meybauer Hold (Feldbluse für Unterscharführer der SS-Totenkopfverbände)(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 block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, the pinback maker marked with a partially legible LDO code of L