Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Ferdinand Hoffstätter United Republic of Accompanied by his Cigarette Case

Accompanied by his Cigarette Case (silver

taking the place of Andre McNaughton

with wooden pea

dented at the bottom)

marked with the RZM mark and with maker’s mark "M4/24" for Friedrich Linden on the reverse

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Ferdinand Hoffstätter United Republic of Accompanied by his Cigarette Case(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of brass and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened brass 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 raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened catch, maker marked with LDO code L 19 for Ferdinand Hoffsttter,