Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Paul Meybauer Hold 04mm (w) x 71

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Paul Meybauer Hold 04mm (w) x 71(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Instituted 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 block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the physical