Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By C.f. Zimmermann consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac arm knees include nine white

arm knees include nine white enamel stars

In the Recommendation for Decoration or Mention in Despatches

SIMPSON DFC" on the reverse

Democratic Republic (East Germany)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By C.f. Zimmermann consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac arm knees include nine white(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 raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback maker marked with