Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Alois Rettenmaier Auction Archive the buckram stiffener on reverse

the buckram stiffener on reverse is lightly browned

without maker's or designer's markings

29 mm x 31

1942 and signed in green ink by an Oberfeldarzt (Senior Field Doctor) and Head Physician of the Reserve Military Hospital in Rinteln (Lower Saxony)

measuring 47 mm x 62

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Alois Rettenmaier Auction Archive the buckram stiffener on reverse(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,