Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by B.H. Mayer Archive Gazette 2nd January 1917)

Gazette 2nd January 1917)

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by B.H. Mayer Archive Gazette 2nd January 1917)(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 barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a rounded and flattened catch, the pinback maker marked with