Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By B.h. Mayer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac ribbon is vertically striped in

ribbon is vertically striped in red-white-black-white-red

Footnote: Established in July of 1941

who died on 27 September 1943 while in service with the Kriegsmarine in the North Sea

12 mm (w) x 46

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By B.h. Mayer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac ribbon is vertically striped in(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 banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 26 for B.