Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By C.f. Zimmermann certificate_of_authenticity while pin has a “Swan”

while pin has a “Swan” import hallmark

stamped "B

=Geländesportwart" with yellow embroidered rules on either side

yet was back in military service by 1944

black reinforced backer

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By C.f. Zimmermann certificate_of_authenticity while pin has a “Swan”(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with code 20 for C. F. Zimmermann,