Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, With Replaced Frame, By Steinhauer & Lück United Republic of Gold with red and green

Gold with red and green enamelled insignia

A fine quality manufacture German Social Welfare Organization Merit Cross

measuring 148x208mm

surrounded by a red enamelled ring inscribed L’UNION FAIT LA FORCE

Protruding from the second button hole from the top is the silhouette of the ribbon of the Iron Cross 2nd Class

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, With Replaced Frame, By Steinhauer & Lück United Republic of Gold with red and green(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 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 LDO code L 16 for Steinhauer & Lck,