Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Clasp To The Iron Cross I Class, Type Ii With Case, By B.h. Mayer certificate_of_authenticity Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal

Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal (in rhodium-plated red brass

Pre-1939 Infanterie-Regiment 19 of the 7

One biographer has suggested that he could have been a trick shooter in a circus

“Weidende Kühe” by Franz Xaver Stahl

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Clasp To The Iron Cross I Class, Type Ii With Case, By B.h. Mayer certificate_of_authenticity Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal(Wiederholungsspange 1939 zum Eisernen Kreuz I. Klasse 1914 mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1940 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, situated on top of a trapezoidal plaque bearing a raised date of 1939 on a pebbled background, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but with the physical