Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Variant, by Alois Rettenmaier Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic with light signs of ageing

with light signs of ageing from storage

contact marks evident on the reverse and on the pin

Emanating from the back are dual grey cotton straps concealing two reinforced eyelets for the addition of an optional belt hanger

compass and level in working order

Von Lauchert took command of the 2nd Panzer Division in December of 1944 and led it in the Battle of the Bulge

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Variant, by Alois Rettenmaier Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic with light signs of ageing(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 reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a central threaded screw post, with a stabilizer emanating from the twelve oclock arm, marked with LDO code L59