Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased I. Class Iron Cross 1939, By Ferdinand Wiedmann Newly Listed 28 mm x 31 mm

28 mm x 31 mm

A fine quality early case

typical WWI period cross of very fine quality manufacture

including North West Campaign

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased I. Class Iron Cross 1939, By Ferdinand Wiedmann Newly Listed 28 mm x 31 mm(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1. Klasse). Instituted on September 1, 1939 by A. H. (Issued 1939 1945). A cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse plain, with a slender banjo style vertical pinback, a sheet metal hinge, and a flat wire catch, unmarked, but depicting