Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Wächtler & Lange Archive with a slim black wool

with a slim black wool tongue attached to the underside of the body

with two small rivets on reverse

the other is undamaged

60 mm x 145 mm x 105 mm in height

German and Italian and overlying the Swiss national cross

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Wächtler & Lange Archive with a slim black wool(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 block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code