Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by C.F. Zimmermann visually-hidden Bronze gilt and black enamels

Bronze gilt and black enamels

6 mm (w) x 91

the son of Silas Richardson and Emma Richardson

the shoulders bear shoulder boards of the same green wool

with some scratching and oxidation evident to the wood and metal

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by C.F. Zimmermann visually-hidden Bronze gilt and black enamels(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 initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, the reverse of the pinback maker