Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Clasp To The Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By B.h. Mayer Newly Listed with a swastika flanked by

with a swastika flanked by laurel branches at the bottom

Percy Poppelstone was from Halifax

despite light contact marks and single bruise

a well made cross

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Clasp To The Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By B.h. Mayer Newly Listed with a swastika flanked by(Spange zum Eisernen Kreuz I. Klasse mit Etui). Instituted 1 September 1939. (1940 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of a Wehrmacht eagle clutching perched on top of a wreathed mobile swastika, above a trapezoidal plaque bearing a raised date of 1939 on a pebbled background, the revere with a barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of