Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case By B.h. Mayer GTRexclude Finely made badge 80x75mm

Finely made badge 80x75mm

stamped in black ink "100" on the underside of the belt at the right end

marked on ring 925

Other people have taken the metaphor farther by comparing the act of bailing out with that of the caterpillar letting itself down to earth by a silken thread

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case By B.h. Mayer GTRexclude Finely made badge 80x75mm(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 central lug retaining a period original backplate, the twelve oclock arm with a stabilizing pin, maker marked on the six