Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Variant, by Alois Rettenmaier Auction Archive the reverse maker marked “HKM”

the reverse maker marked “HKM” for an unidentified maker

soiled) and a CD containing forty-eight pages with copies of his Index Cards

There he was awarded the Italian-German Africa Campaign Medal on November 23

wear and soiling on the leather backer

an 1897 Kaiser Wilhelm I centenary medal

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Variant, by Alois Rettenmaier Auction Archive the reverse maker marked “HKM”(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse an Schraubscheibe). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron 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 central threaded screw post, with a stabilizer emanating from the twelve oclock arm, marked with LDO code L59