Germany, Wehrmacht. An Early 1939 Iron Cross, I Class Archive white and black embroidered cockade

white and black embroidered cockade

From June 11

as well as a black paper backer

Gau Düsseldorf – in solid bronze

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Germany, Wehrmacht. An Early 1939 Iron Cross, I Class Archive white and black embroidered cockade(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Instituted on 1. 9. 1939. (Issued 1939 1945). An early cross with many features similar to those first war issue crosses, of multi piece construction with a blackened non magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse plain with a barrel hinge and narrow banjo style pinback meeting a round