Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Modified for Post-War Wear, by Wilhelm Deumer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Mounted as originally worn

Mounted as originally worn

In die-stamped silver plated bronze

first published in 1902 by the Army and Navy Gazette

Zimmermann in Pforzheim

PARKES JULY 1935" on the reverse

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Modified for Post-War Wear, by Wilhelm Deumer consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Mounted as originally worn(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). 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 six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 11 for Wilhelm Deumer, Ldenscheid, measuring 43. 72 mm (w) x 43. 82 mm