Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Alois Rettenmaier Archive 1917 with "gas poisoning" from

1917 with "gas poisoning" from a shell gas

on a green felt base

measuring 75 mm (w) x 73 mm (h)

approximately 43cm long (approximately 17 inches)

in solid silver (marked SILBER 990 on the rim)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Alois Rettenmaier Archive 1917 with "gas poisoning" from(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 barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 59 for Alois Rettenmaier,