Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By C.f. Zimmermann Archive chip and tear evident around

chip and tear evident around the single drill hole

level six with four USSR ribbons: Medal for Victory Over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945

moth hole in the white felt on one epaulette

it had taken part in key operations

the obverse with a raised leftward-facing profile of Prince Adolph Georg

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By C.f. Zimmermann Archive chip and tear evident around(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 tapering flattened pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback maker marked