Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By Deschler & Sohn, Dietrich Maerz Collection United Republic of including Weimar Republic and Third

including Weimar Republic and Third Reich periods

with five silver washed

push pin points)

then the second style also having the lapel version reverse with no maker’s mark

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By Deschler & Sohn, Dietrich Maerz Collection United Republic of including Weimar Republic and Third(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 1