Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By C.f. Zimmermann certificate_of_authenticity Constructed of oval silvered zink

Constructed of oval silvered zink

first roughly sketched in pencil and then coloured in watercolour

yellow and blue enamelled roundel

marked "STERLING" on the reverse of both the badge and the clasp

Suspended from the belt are two dagger hangers - attached to the belt via one lion head with a loop on the reverse side

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By C.f. Zimmermann certificate_of_authenticity Constructed of oval silvered zink(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 black 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, the reverse of the pinback marked with