Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By C.f. Zimmermann GTRexclude (Reichsarbeitsdienst Ärmelabzeichen)

(Reichsarbeitsdienst Ärmelabzeichen)

Josefine von Losch

fabric overlaying the hinge is severed

silver and separately afffixed swords

Frankfurt) measuring 41

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By C.f. Zimmermann GTRexclude (Reichsarbeitsdienst Ärmelabzeichen)(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 raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback maker marked with