An Iron Cross 1914 First Class; 800 Silver Marked Auction Footnote: Unteroffizier Herbert Lassow was

Footnote: Unteroffizier Herbert Lassow was a German Luftwaffe radio operator operating solely on the eastern front in the Küstenfliegergruppe 806/Kampfgruppe 806

stamped with the date of discharge "22 JAN 1946"

and is signed by a police official named Borghoff

Girouard with a strength of 21 officers and 415 other ranks

An Iron Cross 1914 First Class; 800 Silver Marked Auction Footnote: Unteroffizier Herbert Lassow wasA textbook example of a first war period German Imperial Eisernes Kreuz 1914 1. Klasse; silver frame with a blackened iron core (magnetic); broad vertical pinback (marked 800 for silver content), with a fine barrel hinge and a round wire catch; measuring 42. 26 mm x 42. 22 mm; weighing 17. 3 grams; better than very fine condition. (C: 162)