Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Klein & Quenzer Hold measuring 21 mm (w) x

measuring 21 mm (w) x 32 mm (h)

by Major Edgar Erskine Hume

one with scalloped edges

in turn situated above a sword

Directly below the eagle is a red Waffenfarbe soutache

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Klein & Quenzer Hold measuring 21 mm (w) x(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. 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 block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of