Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Steinhauer & Lück consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 8 mm in diameter with

8 mm in diameter with screwback

the cross is surmounted by a large Princely crown with interior red enamel cap and long pendilia

with a 10 mm (w) x 10 mm (h)

flanked on each side by integral shoulder loops for the accommodation of optional straps

Walz described that there were "several burning German wrecks on the ground and later when he enquired among the people where he was hiding

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Steinhauer & Lück consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 8 mm in diameter with(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 block hinge and tapering pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of