Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased I. Class Iron Cross 1939, By Ferdinand Wiedmann certificate_of_authenticity Brownish-red porcelain

Brownish-red porcelain

Footnote: Clarence Avondale Colling was born in Guelph Ontario in 1891 and was working as a carpenter before enlisting in April 1915

36mm(w) x 51mm(h)

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased I. Class Iron Cross 1939, By Ferdinand Wiedmann certificate_of_authenticity Brownish-red porcelain(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1. Klasse). Instituted on September 1, 1939 by A. H. (Issued 1939 1945). A cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse plain, with a slender banjo style vertical pinback, a sheet metal hinge, and a flat wire catch, unmarked, but depicting