Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version with Case, by C.F. Zimmermann Archive An early issue bronze grade

An early issue bronze grade Panzerkampfabzeichen

24 General Hospital Etaples with a "headache

Constructed of fire gilded tombak

tan-coloured backer bearing a machine-embroidered tri-colour cockade

notably showing many veterans of the Battles of Narvik wearing the Narvik Shield (among other decorations)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version with Case, by C.F. Zimmermann Archive An early issue bronze grade(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse an Schraubscheibe mit Etui). 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 a central threaded screw post retaining an original backplate, with a stabilizer emanating from the