Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By B.h. Mayer Auction Archive listed as "Good Average"

listed as "Good Average"

measures 86

First Class -  in bronze gilt and enamels

silvering wear on the central Ustacha insignia

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By B.h. Mayer Auction Archive listed as "Good Average"(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). 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 barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 26 for B. H.