Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Ferdinand Hoffstätter consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac After a brief stay in

After a brief stay in England

the 'Quaid-i-Azam' (Great Leader)

A period original signed photograph of Hanns-Heinrich Lohmann

It was awarded in four classes: 1st Class with a gold gilt laurel wreath on the ribbon

The General SS

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Ferdinand Hoffstätter consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac After a brief stay in(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of brass and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened 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 raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened catch, maker marked with LDO code L 19 for Ferdinand Hoffsttter,