Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Steinhauer & Lück consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Frankfurt/Oder

Frankfurt/Oder

bringing with him a wounded man

his back to the viewer

sixty-six destroyers

one with maroon felt in the void of the Queen's crown

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Steinhauer & Lück consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Frankfurt/Oder(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