Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version with Case, by C.F. Zimmermann consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac slightly loose)

slightly loose)

maker’s cartouche for E

constructed of red card stock

flanked by three rows of conjoined loops

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version with Case, by C.F. Zimmermann consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac slightly loose)(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse an Schraubscheibe 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 central threaded screw post retaining an original backplate, with a stabilizer emanating from the