Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case By B.h. Mayer Auction 440707 / Pte

440707 / Pte

1916 in Thuringia

maker marked “RZM 8” presumable for “Ferdinand Wagner

He was to spend the next three months in hospital

bearing two bands of interwoven silver aluminum wire and green threaded piping around two bands of silver aluminum wire piping interspersed with green threading

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case By B.h. Mayer Auction 440707 / Pte(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 central lug retaining a period original backplate, the twelve oclock arm with a stabilizing pin, maker marked on the six