Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Wilhelm Deumer Archive and Zeppelins

and Zeppelins

inscribed in Gothic text " "U 53" glücklich zurückgekehrt

Features a five panel construction

centering swastika

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Wilhelm Deumer Archive and Zeppelins(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945). 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, maker marked with LDO code L 11 for Wilhelm Deumer,