Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Owner-Attributed Example, With Case Buy Now on a black button

on a black button

Footnote: John Angolia graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1959 with a BA in History

a tear evident in the blue field at the bottom of the hoist sleeve

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Owner-Attributed Example, With Case Buy Now on a black button(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 blocke hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, lacking a makers mark but bearing an etched owners name