Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Rudolf Souval Auction On 1 May 1941

On 1 May 1941

Cole took sick while in the Crimea during the winter of 1854-1855 and was hospitalized in March 1855 in Scutari

engraver marked "KÖLBLINGER INNSBRUCK" on the obverse

he joined the Honolulu Rifles

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Rudolf Souval Auction On 1 May 1941(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