Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Wächtler & Lange Auction ” encircled by a silver

” encircled by a silver beaded edge

with the poem inscribed below in Old-English type: "In Flanders Fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses

with two crossed oak leaf branches

photo in the center surrounded by the inscription ""CHAS

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Wächtler & Lange Auction ” encircled by a silver(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of brass and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened non ferrous brass 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 flattened catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture