Germany. An Iron Cross 1939 First Class, Scarce Cloth Version Archive A 1936 1200 Jahre Alfred-Rosenberg

A 1936 1200 Jahre Alfred-Rosenberg badge (21

bearing a yellow machine-embroidered inscription of LANDUNGSGESCHWADER in Gothic script

measuring 48 mm (w) x 54 mm (h)

General Catlos

dated 20 April 1944 and issued 25 April of the same year

Germany. An Iron Cross 1939 First Class, Scarce Cloth Version Archive A 1936 1200 Jahre Alfred-RosenbergThis is a textbook example of a fine quality detailed manufacture of cloth version of an Iron Cross 1939 First Class (Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1. Klasse); the obverse is constructed of fine hand embroidered twisted silver aluminum bullion threadings forming the signature white metal cross patte with a grey woven core replacing the blackened iron core, with a raised central mobile swastika and the re institution date 1939 on the lower arm; on a black wool