Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version, by C.F. Zimmermann consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac each closing with Schörner’s handwritten

each closing with Schörner’s handwritten signature

3 mm (w) x 72 mm (h) inclusive of its crown suspension

a Wilhelm Cross ribbon with Swords

on account of "Medical unfitness due to complete ankylosis (stiffness of a joint due to abnormal adhesion and rigidity of the bones of the joint

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version, by C.F. Zimmermann consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac each closing with Schörner’s handwritten(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse, an Schraubscheibe). 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 central threaded screw post retaining an original backplate, the twelve oclock arm topped by a stabilizer, the