Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Steinhauer & Lück Archive edge nicks on the SMOStJ

edge nicks on the SMOStJ

enlisting with the United States Naval Reserve

marked SILVER near integral loop

Class IV (bronze gilt with red

missing the pinback

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Steinhauer & Lück Archive edge nicks on the SMOStJ(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 tapering pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of