Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version, by Schauerte & Höhfeld Newly Listed 1903-05” on the bottom

1903-05” on the bottom

and the dirk completes with a round gilded bronze pommel

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who married Eveline Isabella Pidock in 1896) and Edmund Hugh Hodgkinson (1857-1943

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version, by Schauerte & Höhfeld Newly Listed 1903-05” on the bottom(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 restitution date of 1939, the reverse with a central threaded screwpost retaining an original backplate, the twelve oclock arm with a stabilizer, the six