Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by B.H. Mayer Newly Listed Wounded at Vimy and Arras

Wounded at Vimy and Arras

while the underside of the sweatband is stamped with a manufacture date of “42” and a size mark of “56”

Hesse on November 15

signed in black ink by Division Leader Wilhelm Bittrich

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by B.H. Mayer Newly Listed Wounded at Vimy and Arras(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 barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a rounded and flattened catch, the pinback maker marked with