Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by B.H. Mayer GTRexclude Housed in a silver scabbard

Housed in a silver scabbard

Wooden handle with one dent among the eagle and fits tight to the crossguard

(1934 issue)

Before being deployed in Russia

with silvering wear on the Engineer cyphers

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by B.H. Mayer GTRexclude Housed in a silver scabbard(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 barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting around wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 26 for