Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class Newly Listed but completely free of chips

but completely free of chips or cracks

dated 1 January 1946

1945 and signed in pencil by a Lieutenant and Company Leader

ranks as one of the three greatest documents of the English-speaking world

Issue 1926-1931

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class Newly Listed but completely free of chips(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 block hinge and vertical pinback meeting a rounded catch, unmarked, measuring 44. 32 mm (w) x 44. 37 mm (h), weighing 20. 0