Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by C.E. Juncker Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Footnote: The Sovereign Military Hospitaller

Footnote: The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Acre and Saint Thomas is among those that existed in the late Middle Ages at the time of the Crusades but then died out

measuring 166 mm (w) x 68 mm (h)

(Essentablett in Silber)

above a pillbox

later King George IV

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by C.E. Juncker Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Footnote: The Sovereign Military Hospitaller(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). 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, maker marked with LDO code L 12 for C. E. Juncker,