Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Wilhelm Deumer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac By the end of the

By the end of the conflict

both stamped with identification numbers and perforated with eyelets for lanyard suspension

April 5 1917 - “practicing going over the top ready for Monday”

along its collar

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Wilhelm Deumer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac By the end of the(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 block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 11 for Wilhelm Deumer,