Germany, Heer. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Award Document, to Fahnenjunker-Unteroffizier Wilhelm Nortz consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac with the throat also retaining

with the throat also retaining a loop for the accommodation of a hanger

The reverse is riveted with a modern magnetic metal suspension loop

Yixuan's desire to please Cixi was such that he did not even stop work on the Summer Palace to relieve the victims of the floods that hit Beijing

8 mm (w) x 46 mm (h) inclusive of its trophy-of-arms suspension

Germany, Heer. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Award Document, to Fahnenjunker-Unteroffizier Wilhelm Nortz consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac with the throat also retaining(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse mit Urkunde). 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 six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, unmarked, measuring 44. 48 mm (w) x 47. 52 mm (h), weighing 17. 3