An Iron Cross 1939 First Class By Paul Meybauer In Its Matching Case Of Issue Auction and double oak leaf bars

and double oak leaf bars

Tobin was the last person to leave the ship

he returned to Canada in June 1966

two clasps on the second ribbon

Frank Winter

An Iron Cross 1939 First Class By Paul Meybauer In Its Matching Case Of Issue Auction and double oak leaf barsAn Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1. Klasse; a cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed frame; the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm; the reverse plain, with a vertical banjo style pinback, with a barrel hinge, and a round wire catch the pin marked 7 (incomplete strike) for Paul Meybauer, Berlin on the reverse; measuring 44. 15