Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version, by Schauerte & Höhfeld Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Queen in 1917

Queen in 1917

which was built for not more than about 400 and it was incredibly crowded

it briefly governed the First Austrian Republic

with reverse inscribed PER ASPERA AS ASTRA LATVIJAS REPUBLIKA 1918 G 18 VOEMBRIS

A fine early quality textbook example of a Junker J-1 “Pilotenabzeichen”

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version, by Schauerte & Höhfeld Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Queen in 1917(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 restitution date of 1939, the reverse with a central threaded screwpost retaining an original backplate, the twelve oclock arm with a stabilizer, the six