Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Paul Meybauer, Berlin Archive depicted in uniform and wearing

depicted in uniform and wearing a Parachutist Badge

black and gray cotton mesh backer

14 mm (w) x 41

issued in the capital in 1961

dated to 1986

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Paul Meybauer, Berlin Archive depicted in uniform and wearing(Eisernes Kreuze 1939 I. Klasse). 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 block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch emanating from an oval base plate, the pinback maker marked with LDO code L 13 for Paul Meybauer, Berlin, measuring