Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Cloth Version, Certified by Dietrich Maerz Auction Archive Medal for Loyalty and Defence

Medal for Loyalty and Defence Capacity 1918-1938 (AKA Organized Volunteers Medal) (in bronze gilt

the zipper beginning at the edge of the collar at the neck line and terminates at the mid-breast

Both concealed within a period original cardboard mailer

tales of the atrocities supposedly committed by France's native allies at the surrender of Fort Oswego and Fort William Henry probably fresh in his mind

in tombac (gilding nearly completely rubbed off)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Cloth Version, Certified by Dietrich Maerz Auction Archive Medal for Loyalty and Defence(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse, Stoffausfhrung). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of black and grey wool with silver aluminum wire, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse featuring a machine embroidered silver aluminum wire frame frame with ribbing executed in a pebbled format, with a dark grey wool core, the six oclock arm with a date of 1939 similarly constructed of silver aluminum wire, with a central black wool