Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Paul Meybauer Buy Now Constructed of a card stock

Constructed of a card stock binding with a red oilcloth exterior liner

Secured to the crown with four rivets is a bronze baseplate in the form of four petals

At the outbreak of the Second World War

the reverse of the left tab retaining a fully intact Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) label bearing a maker’s code of “A4/24” and a secondary code of “400658”

Footnote: The Order of Civil Merit was established by King Alfonso XIII on June 25

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Paul Meybauer Buy Now Constructed of a card stock(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 1939, the reverse with a crimped hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Paul