Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, I Class, By Wächtler & Lange, With Case United Republic of Type IV (Franz Joseph

Type IV (Franz Joseph

13 mm x 53

along with a table card inscribed "Captain & Mrs Eric S

white and black checkered pattern in the wool which encompasses it

and would remain there for four months

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, I Class, By Wächtler & Lange, With Case United Republic of Type IV (Franz Joseph(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1. Klasse). A cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core within a within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse plain with a barrel hinge soldered on its side and vertical pinback meeting a thick flat wire catch, pinback reverse marked with 100 for maker Rudolf Wchtler & Lange, Mittweida,