Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Friedrich Orth Hold For his South African service

For his South African service

this is an extremely rare badge

with the shield on the right bearing the Spanish Falangist arrows

of Strathcona

Hoffmann" photographer's credit below

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Friedrich Orth Hold For his South African service(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 block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flattened catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 15 for Friedrich