Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By Deschler & Sohn, Dietrich Maerz Collection Buy Now 2 mm x 70 mm

2 mm x 70 mm x 21 mm

Silver and gold-coloured bullion wire

with a heading inscribed "PIONIERE" above the standard on the obverse

joining the Hitler Youth as early as 1922 when it was still known as the Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterjugend (National Socialist Worker’s Youth)

Gold and enamels with a hand painted centrepiece on the obverse

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By Deschler & Sohn, Dietrich Maerz Collection Buy Now 2 mm x 70 mm(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 mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 1