Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Gebrüder Godet Auction Archive mounted by Lieutenant H

mounted by Lieutenant H

the reverse plain with a full banjo-style vertical pinback and barrel hinge meeting a round wire catch

and completes with a functional spring clip of identical construction

and measuring 212x136mm

maker marked "'EL ORO' J

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Gebrüder Godet Auction Archive mounted by Lieutenant H(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a vaulted 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 barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 50 for Gebrder Godet,