Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Rudolf Souval Auction he joined the Honolulu Rifles

he joined the Honolulu Rifles

horizontal pinback (missing catch)

Type IV Silver

six loose black and white photographs tucked inside the pocket on the inside cover (one illustrates a group of Eastern civilians

On 1 May 1941

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Rudolf Souval Auction he joined the Honolulu Rifles(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). 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 reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by Rudolf Souval, Vienna, measuring 44. 56