Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Steinhauer & Lück Auction Archive Pacific Command at Esquimalt

Pacific Command at Esquimalt

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Steinhauer & Lück Auction Archive Pacific Command at Esquimalt(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). 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 LDO code L 16 for