Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Clasp to the Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Eugen Schmidhäussler Newly Listed “Flight Clasps of the Luftwaffe”)

“Flight Clasps of the Luftwaffe”)

obverse centre shows Lazarus praying to Jesus

4 cm from wingtip to wingtip

inscribed with “The Word is to France” and “The Hour to God”

Franz Riedweg (1907–2005) from Switzerland was an SS-Obersturmbannführer and Chief of the Germanischen Leitstelle (German Central Office) of the SS-Hauptamt (Main Administration)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Clasp to the Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Eugen Schmidhäussler Newly Listed “Flight Clasps of the Luftwaffe”)(Wiederholungsspange 1939 zum Eisernen Kreuz I. Klasse 1914, 2. Form mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of a Wehrmacht eagle perched on top of a wreathed mobile swastika, in turn situated above a trapezoidal plaque bearing a raised date of 1939 on a pebbled field, the reverse with a block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but