Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Variant, by Alois Rettenmaier GTRexclude All suspended from a 170

All suspended from a 170 mm-long two-piece bar with a horizontal pinback and field-grey wool reverse liner

deliberately exposing the underlying black leather cover on the crown and two rear side panels

demonstrating extensive loss of finish with moderate oxidation

the third screwpost having been lost to time

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Variant, by Alois Rettenmaier GTRexclude All suspended from a 170(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse an Schraubscheibe). 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, with a stabilizer emanating from the twelve oclock arm, marked with LDO code L59