Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Cloth Version Auction Archive impressed "445" and engraved "U

impressed "445" and engraved "U

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including a Medal in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Cloth Version Auction Archive impressed "445" and engraved "U(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse, Stoffausfhrung). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A rare cloth version of the 1939 Iron Cross I Class, constructed of an octagonal white wool backer which retains a dark grey paper stock reverse liner, the obverse bearing a Cross Patte consisting of a dark grey threaded frame with its inner and outer edges trimmed with twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire piping, the core constructed of black doeskin