Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Klein & Quenzer United Republic of 5 mm x 41 mm

5 mm x 41 mm respectively

The First World War pair

Klasse 1939”

42mm(w) x 73mm(h)

measuring 124mm x 63mm

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Klein & Quenzer United Republic of 5 mm x 41 mm(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A Cross Patte 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 with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, pinback maker marked with code 65 for Klein & Quenzer,