An Iron Cross 1939 First Class By Klein & Quenzer Of Idar Oberstein Hold privately impressed on the UNKM

privately impressed on the UNKM and officially engraved on the CFD

and a Third Reich Period Faithful Service medal ribbon with miniature

KASSEL" below the Empire Court House building

He was likely treated with an application of the antiseptic gentian violet

this cross is a prime and desirable example of an early 19th Century pattern PLM and likely a late crafted Baudesson cross

An Iron Cross 1939 First Class By Klein & Quenzer Of Idar Oberstein Hold privately impressed on the UNKMAn Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1. Klasse; white metal cross pattee of multi piece construction, with a blackened iron core (magnetic)within a white metal ribbed border; the obverse with a raised central movile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm; the reverse plain, with a slender vertical banjo style pinback, a barrel hinge, and a round wire catch; the catch maker marked 65 for Klein & Quenzer, Idar Oberstein;