Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case Auction Archive and leather features

and leather features

Grand Cross Star in silver

It is also marked in black handwritten ink "RMD/280" on the left inside collar

two days before being alerted by intelligence sources to the probability of a Japanese attack on Ceylon on April 1

signed and dated July 18

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case Auction Archive and leather features(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 inside of a ribbed silver alloy frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, with a reinstitution date of 1939 on the six oclock arm, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 43. 94 mm (w) 44. 09 mm (h),