Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By Wächtler & Lange, Dietrich Maerz Collection Newly Listed surrounded by the inscription "GAUTREFFEN

surrounded by the inscription "GAUTREFFEN DER BAYR

Three early examples of the star

"" composed of young men in the community

measuring 220 mm (w) x 305 mm (h)

the second inscribed "Do X-3" on the reverse

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By Wächtler & Lange, Dietrich Maerz Collection Newly Listed surrounded by the inscription "GAUTREFFEN(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, the reverse of the pinback marked with LDO code L55 for