Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Gebrüder Godet Archive Instituted 30 September 1866 by

Instituted 30 September 1866 by Grand Duke Friedrich I

wearing a Ribbon Bar for the Iron Cross 1st Class above the Iron Cross 1st Class and the Prussian Pilot Badge on his left breast

A Heer Marksmanship Lanyard insignia

on 30 January 1943

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Gebrüder Godet Archive Instituted 30 September 1866 by(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patt 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 flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 50 for Gebrder Godet,