Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Paul Meybauer Archive founded by the Negus of

founded by the Negus of Shoa and later emperor of Ethiopia Menelik II in 1884-1885

the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey threaded Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

silvered bronze screwback

maker marked with the stylized logo of “Fritz Zimmermann of Stuttgart” on the reverse

constructed of matte gold tress

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Paul Meybauer Archive founded by the Negus of(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). 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 block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 13 for Paul Meybauer, Berlin,