Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class by Steinhauer & Lück
(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939-1945 issue). A Cross Pattée of multi-piece construction, with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re-institution date “1939” in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo-style pinback meeting a round wire catch, the pinback maker marked with code “4” for Steinhauer & Lück, Lüdenscheid, measuring 43.93 mm (w) x 43.79 mm (h), weighing 21.5 grams, in better than very fine condition.

