Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, I Class, With Case, By Wilhelm Deumer certificate_of_authenticity An extremely well preserved fine

An extremely well preserved fine quality manufacture 1864-1935 issue Saxe-Gotha/Altenburg Ernestine House Order Knight Second Class (Sachse-Ernestinische Hausorden Ritterkreuz II Klasse)

and is listed as killed in action on 23 August 1943 by a red ink stamp on the obverse cover

(SS-Gruppenführer Kragenspiegel)

with "no objective signs present"

A military offensive against the Japanese Army began in February 1944

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, I Class, With Case, By Wilhelm Deumer certificate_of_authenticity An extremely well preserved fine(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1. Klasse). A cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core within a ribbed silver border, 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 barrel hinge and vertical banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, measuring 43. 91 mm (w) x 43. 85 mm (h), weighing 20. 5 grams, accompanied by its period original LDO