Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, I Class, Cloth Version Hold 86 mm x 137 mm

86 mm x 137 mm

maker marked "OLC" (Overhoff & Cie Ludenscheid) and marked "GES

accompanied by a 35 mm (w) x 14

in fine quality dark brown case of issue

The right breast is enriched with an Honorable Discharge Emblem lozenge in yellow embroidery on a diamond-shaped olive green rayon base

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, I Class, Cloth Version Hold 86 mm x 137 mm(1939 Eisernes Kreuz I. Klasse). A cloth version of the Iron Cross, I Class, the obverse is constructed of fine hand embroidered twisted silver aluminum bullion threading forming the signature white metal cross patte with a grey woven core replacing the blackened iron core, with a raised central mobile swastika and the re institution date 1939 on the lower arm, on a white wool background with a preserved black paper backer, measuring 48 mm (w) x 47 mm