Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Steinhauer & Lück Newly Listed 26 mm long stick pin

26 mm long stick pin

1930 period production with thin pin

shooting down another French plane

constructed of silvery threads on black wool backing

a crimped hinge and a crimped round wire catch

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Steinhauer & Lück Newly Listed 26 mm long stick pin(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). 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 flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 4 for