Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Crosses I Class, by Klein & Quenzer Auction Archive A Large Miniature Marian Cross

A Large Miniature Marian Cross of the German Knight Order - Silver gilt and enamels

measuring 32 mm (w) x 1185 mm (l)

flanked by branches of laurel leaves at the left and oak leaves at the right

Instituted 23 April 1905 by King Friedrich August III

94 meters in length

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Crosses I Class, by Klein & Quenzer Auction Archive A Large Miniature Marian Cross(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 tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of