Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939 First Class, Screwback Variant, by Paul Meybauer United Republic of 1st Class Grand Cross -

1st Class Grand Cross - Silver gilt and enamels

along with copies of his Silver Star

(Der Frontkamerad Buch)

maker marked "MINCK LIMITED Diamond Merchants LAHORE

The blade presents plain with the exception of a maker’s mark near the reverse ricasso of “ORIGINAL EICKHORN

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939 First Class, Screwback Variant, by Paul Meybauer United Republic of 1st Class Grand Cross -(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Re instituted September 1st, 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 is plain with a threaded post accompanied by its backing plate with a threaded male post, marked L 13 for manufacture by Paul