Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Clasp To The Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By B.h. Mayer Newly Listed Gold lettering in the centrepiece

Gold lettering in the centrepiece

It is dated to Neuss (western Germany) on February 23

In June of that year

Duke of Gloucester

with postcard address backer

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Clasp To The Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By B.h. Mayer Newly Listed Gold lettering in the centrepiece(Spange zum Eisernen Kreuz I. Klasse mit Etui). Instituted 1 September 1939. (1940 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of a Wehrmacht eagle clutching perched on top of a wreathed mobile swastika, above a trapezoidal plaque bearing a raised date of 1939 on a pebbled background, the revere with a barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of