Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case Newly Listed 5380 PORTS

5380 PORTS

with an Iron Cross 1st Class and Pilot's Badge below

Intricately patterned gray and red wool cord knot

and with the lug bars being slightly bent from use

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case Newly Listed 5380 PORTS(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 block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 44. 17 mm (w) x 44. 12 mm (h),