Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version, by Gebrüder Godet Auction (Kriegsmarine Postkarte)

(Kriegsmarine Postkarte)

Military Medal

Oval shaped insignia

the lid bearing a gilded number “40” situated within an oak leaf wreath

the boards are secured in place with machine stitching integrated into the sleeve’s seam at the outer edge

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version, by Gebrüder Godet Auction (Kriegsmarine Postkarte)(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse an Schraubscheibe). 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 central threaded channel retaining retaining an original backplate, the twelve oclock arm topped by a stabilizer,