Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by C.F. Zimmermann Buy Now wood grip with original wire

wood grip with original wire still present

After a short interval in the Ehrhardt Brigade and studies at a technical school

An example of an NSDAP Youth belt buckle

the obverse with an open-ended oak leaf wreath featuring a national eagle with out-stretched wings clutching a wreathed swastika

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by C.F. Zimmermann Buy Now wood grip with original wire(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). 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 flat vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback maker marked with LDO code L