Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Paul Meybauer Newly Listed then as an adult (1925-1940))

then as an adult (1925-1940))

Very interesting late war award document

signed in ink by Croatian Minister of Armed Forces Ustaša Colonel Ante Vokić on lower left

38 mm (w) x 61

crossed swords clasp above "ILMAPUOLUSTUS" (Air Force) clasp on an original ribbon

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Paul Meybauer Newly Listed then as an adult (1925-1940))(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse 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 block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, the pinback maker marked with LDO code L 13 for Paul