Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case Auction Archive inscribed “Fuer Kunst und Wissenschaft”

inscribed “Fuer Kunst und Wissenschaft” (German - For Art and Science)

Footnote: The Marienberger Dreieckrennen was a motorcycle race that took place on the non-permanent 17 km long raceway in the “triangle” of Saxony between 1923 and 1937

pinned into the centre of the swastika is a single brass pip bearing a Parteiadler- (Party Eagle) style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika

One week after his return

Howell with the 2nd Battalion

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case Auction Archive inscribed “Fuer Kunst und Wissenschaft”(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 44. 38 mm (w) x 44. 48 mm (h),