Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version, by Otto Schickle Auction Archive of copper bronze

of copper bronze

weighing 93

a circular medal engraving a portrait of King Luis I of Portugal on the obverse

with a round receiver catch and double claw belt attachment bar

1 cm (w) x 9

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version, by Otto Schickle Auction Archive of copper bronze(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 central threaded screw post retaining an original backplate and nut, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of an