Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Clasp to the Iron Cross I Class, Type II, by Steinhauer & Lück Auction Archive with aging evident

with aging evident

suspended from a hanger with pinback dated "1939")

Various grades and issues of each order are described and illustrated

and the tradition of wearing this insignia was reintroduced once again

marked with the maker mark in Gothic script “G

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Clasp to the Iron Cross I Class, Type II, by Steinhauer & Lück Auction Archive with aging evident(Wiederholungsspange 1939 zum Eisernen Kreuz I. Klasse 1914, 2. Form). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1940 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a Wehrmacht eagle perched on top of a wreathed mobile swastika, in turn situated above a trapezoidal plaque bearing a raised date of 1939 on a pebbled field, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch emanating from a circular