Germany, Wehrmacht. A Pair of 1939 Iron Crosses I Class, Maker Marked Examples Newly Listed A superb and exceedingly scarce

A superb and exceedingly scarce Austrian made award commissioned by the Qing Government for foreign recipients in Western countries

including loss of finish and minor oxidation to the metal fixtures and fatigue of the leather shell and liner

with an integral loop for suspension from a brown leather strap

measuring 46 mm (w) x 78 mm (h)

both buttons unmarked

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Pair of 1939 Iron Crosses I Class, Maker Marked Examples Newly Listed A superb and exceedingly scarce(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). A pair of 1939 Iron Crosses I Class, including: 1. One 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 vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback maker marked with