Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case Archive for two years

for two years

with extensive operational entries and commentary for his period of service in Malta in between

"Small Head Version" Measuring 37mm (x56mm including crown suspension)

the largest falling to Great Britain

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case Archive for two years(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Instituted on 1. 9. 1939. (Issued 1939 1945). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, with a blackened iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse plain with a barrel hinge and vertical banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 43. 85 mm (w) x 43. 94mm (h),