Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Cloth Version, With Dietrich Maerz Certification GTRexclude A bronze gilt Maltese cross

A bronze gilt Maltese cross with white enameled arms

The booklet features 48 neatly written and mostly legible entries of her family’s heritage on her father’s and mother’s side

pair awarded to Private L

the exterior bearing a central rectangular frame surrounding an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath

CARLOS THAYS (HIJO)" with a second plaque below inscribed "25 DE AGUSTO / 1825-1925" (August 25 / 1825-1925)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Cloth Version, With Dietrich Maerz Certification GTRexclude A bronze gilt Maltese cross(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse, Stoffausfhrung). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of black wool, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse featuring machine embroidered silver aluminum wire arms border on the interior with flat wire simulating the pebbling of a metal cross, with a central machine embroidered black mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a machine embroidered date of 1939, the reverse featuring a field grey