Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Gebrüder Godet Newly Listed White and brown embroidery on

White and brown embroidery on black wool

Ovular shape with handle on a hinge secured with two rivets

joined in the middle by a black mobile swastika

He joined the 7th Field Battery

The reverse features a central vertical slit flanked on each side by scalloped flaps

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Gebrüder Godet Newly Listed White and brown embroidery on(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a vaulted 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 vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 50 for Gebrder Godet,