Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Steinhauer & Lück GTRexclude rather retiring soldier who is

rather retiring soldier who is thirty-one years of age

opening with horizontally-arranged

with a sword attached and dangling from his left hip

surrounded by a white enamelled ring inscribed SI DEUS NOBISCUM QUIS CONTRA NOS (If God is with us

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Steinhauer & Lück GTRexclude rather retiring soldier who is(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 barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics