Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Clasp to the Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by B.H. Mayer Hold leather tab stitched in place

leather tab stitched in place to the roll bar on the buckle

inset old rose cut stones on the five star points

traces of paint chipping on the upper arm

6 and 9 o’clock

A pair of Eastern Front commemorative trench art brass shells

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Clasp to the Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by B.H. Mayer Hold leather tab stitched in place(Wiederholungsspange 1939 zum Eisernen Kreuz I. Klasse 1914 mit Etui 2. Form). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1940 1945). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of a Wehrmacht eagle perched on top of a wreathed mobile swastika, situated above a trapezoidal plaque bearing a raised date of 1939 on a pebbled background, the reverse with a barrel hinge and flatted vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the