Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By B.h. Mayer, Dietrich Maerz Collection certificate_of_authenticity with covers in a thick

with covers in a thick paper stock in various colours

scarce type

date impressed "1942" on the reverse

32 mm x 75

on an original war ribbon

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By B.h. Mayer, Dietrich Maerz Collection certificate_of_authenticity with covers in a thick(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). 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 barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by the firm of B. H. Mayer, Pforzheim,