Germany, Third Reich. A Cased Iron Cross 1939 First Class, Screw-back Version, by B.H. Mayer Province of China 37 mm x 60 mm)

37 mm x 60 mm)

Constructed of blackened and silvered bronze

with the thread taped together and labeled with a RZM/HJ label

with screwback and intact pin point)

the suspension loop fitted through with a period original full-length neck ribbon constructed of black rayon

Germany, Third Reich. A Cased Iron Cross 1939 First Class, Screw-back Version, by B.H. Mayer Province of China 37 mm x 60 mm)(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse im Etui). Reinstituted September 1st, 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a slightly vaulted 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 screw back and a pin on the twelve oclock arm, marked L 18 for manufacture by B. H. Mayer of