Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By Fritz Zimmermann, Dietrich Maerz Collection Buy Now in Gold and enamels (pin

in Gold and enamels (pin marked with 18Kt

The silvered brass scabbard is bedecked with ornate designs on the chape

He served in the European theatre with the Canadian Pioneer Battalion

Accompanied by its original LDO box of issue

15 mm x 15 mm

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By Fritz Zimmermann, Dietrich Maerz Collection Buy Now in Gold and enamels (pin(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, with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 6 for maker Fritz