Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class by Deschler & Sohn

(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939-1945 issue). A Cross Pattée of multi-piece construction, with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re-institution date “1939” in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse plain with a barrel hinge and vertical banjo-style pinback meeting an elongated flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 44.23 mm (w) x 44.22 mm (h), weighing 17.7 grams, in better than very fine condition.