Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Steinhauer & Lück Auction Archive crowned national eagle overlaid by

crowned national eagle overlaid by red-painted Latin Cross

joined together at the bottom by an elaborate depiction of the Order of St

consisting of 1) A NSAD (National Socialist Worker’s League/Nationalsozialistischer Arbeitsdienst) membership stick pin

launched on July 5

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Steinhauer & Lück Auction Archive crowned national eagle overlaid by(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 tapering vertical pinback meeting a rounded and flattened catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics