Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Gebrüder Godet & Co., Dietrich Maerz Collection certificate_of_authenticity (Gioventù Italiana del Littorio =

(Gioventù Italiana del Littorio = GIL): Die-stamped bronze gilt with deep yellow and red paint

interior presents a crème coloured velvet medal bed and silk interior

each of the eye sockets stitched to the framework of the googles

an iron cross paty constructed of bronze

Naming is engraved on both: the CGSM on the edge

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Gebrüder Godet & Co., Dietrich Maerz Collection certificate_of_authenticity (Gioventù Italiana del Littorio =(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 barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, marked underneath the catch with code L 50 for maker