Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By C.f. Zimmermann Hold with eighteen chapters

with eighteen chapters

it recognizes an individual "who has performed exemplary deeds or services for his or her country or fellow citizens

The interior features are completed by a pair of metal hooks on the right collar meeting an equal number of loops on the left

Declaration of Independence

In its wooden storage case

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By C.f. Zimmermann Hold with eighteen chapters(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). 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 raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback maker marked with