Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Steinhauer & Lück Newly Listed 30 mm (w) x 41

30 mm (w) x 41 mm (h)

material fatigue of the sweatband

followed by an inscriptions imploring Bosnians to enlist in the SS (13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS “Handschar”) alongside their Croatian compatriots

mounted to a large silver cross-shaped base

maker marked "GIEVES" on the ricasso

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Steinhauer & Lück Newly Listed 30 mm (w) x 41(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