Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Clasp To The Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By B.h. Mayer Newly Listed Page 12 includes a certificate

Page 12 includes a certificate stating that Matthiessen has been awarded the NSDAP Long Service Award in Bronze and Silver on April 20

with postcard address backer

In June of that year

dated 23 March 1942

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Clasp To The Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By B.h. Mayer Newly Listed Page 12 includes a certificate(Spange zum Eisernen Kreuz I. Klasse mit Etui). Instituted 1 September 1939. (1940 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of a Wehrmacht eagle clutching perched on top of a wreathed mobile swastika, above a trapezoidal plaque bearing a raised date of 1939 on a pebbled background, the revere with a barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of