Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By C.f. Zimmermann Auction Archive marked on reverse with GES

marked on reverse with GES

16 mm (w) x 47

with its period original bow-tie ribbon (with the attachment loop severed)

but completely worn off on the obverse

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By C.f. Zimmermann Auction Archive marked on reverse with GES(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. 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 tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 52 for C. F.