Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Paul Meybauer, Berlin visually-hidden Army Cap Badge (in bronze

Army Cap Badge (in bronze gilt with red

hallmarked on elongated suspension loop with boars head denoting French small silver guarantee post 1838

two bronze stars on its original ribbon with brooch pinback)

the clip end bearing a reverse embossed maker’s mark of “WITTKOP & CO

measuring 455 mm (inclusive of button loop)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Paul Meybauer, Berlin visually-hidden Army Cap Badge (in bronze(Eisernes Kreuze 1939 I. Klasse). 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 emanating from an oval base plate, the pinback maker marked with LDO code L 13 for Paul Meybauer, Berlin, measuring