Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Owner-Attributed Example, With Case Newly Listed Paris measuring 56 mm (w)

Paris measuring 56 mm (w) x 90 mm (h - inclusive of suspension)

500 km) in eighty hours of actual flying time

With no evident damage or wear

(Reichsluftfahrtministerium Oberst Litzen)

the obverse with an Olympic column topped by rings

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Owner-Attributed Example, With Case Newly Listed Paris measuring 56 mm (w)(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 blocke hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, lacking a makers mark but bearing an etched owners name