Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by C.F. Zimmermann visually-hidden Bronze gilt and black enamels

Bronze gilt and black enamels

6 mm (w) x 91

with some scratching and oxidation evident to the wood and metal

the shoulders bear shoulder boards of the same green wool

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by C.F. Zimmermann visually-hidden Bronze gilt and black enamels(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 initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, the reverse of the pinback maker