Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By B.h. Mayer GTRexclude consisting of a Pisan Cross

consisting of a Pisan Cross with pebbled arms and with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece

Severely depleted by desertion

marked "SLOVENSKY CERVENY KRIZ / PO PATROCNEJ VZORNEJ SLUZBE" (Slovak Red Cross / After Five Years' Exemplary Service) and numbered "4581" on the reverse

in magnetic steel

Sa Werkstatt Für erstklassige Holzblasinstrumente" (Workshop for First-Class Wood Wind Instruments) in blue embroidery with the company's insignia immediately to the left in red embroidery

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By B.h. Mayer GTRexclude consisting of a Pisan Cross(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.