Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Cloth Version, With Dietrich Maerz Certification GTRexclude A bronze gilt Maltese cross

A bronze gilt Maltese cross with white enameled arms

maker marked “List & Mertz

the exterior bearing a central rectangular frame surrounding an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath

Tisdall recognized that he had the perfect product and was determined to find the best way to market it

Accompanied by a large Studio Portrait of the Private Schofield in his 234th Infantry Battalion Uniform: colourized black and white

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Cloth Version, With Dietrich Maerz Certification GTRexclude A bronze gilt Maltese cross(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse, Stoffausfhrung). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of black wool, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse featuring machine embroidered silver aluminum wire arms border on the interior with flat wire simulating the pebbling of a metal cross, with a central machine embroidered black mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a machine embroidered date of 1939, the reverse featuring a field grey