Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939 I Class Newly Listed Funeral Pillow

Funeral Pillow

a rectangular ring attached to a 28 mm wide smooth finished black leather strap stitched in place 210 mm from the right end along the top edge

intact slider

the sweatband having separated in two locations

well marked

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939 I Class Newly Listed Funeral Pillow(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1. Klasse). A cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse shows a vertical pinback, a barrel hinge, a flat wire catch, unmarked, measures 44. 37 mm (w) x 44. 52 mm (h), weighs 17. 8 grams, with light loss of black finish on the core of the