Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Steinhauer & Lück Archive with the regimental ribbon banner

with the regimental ribbon banner below inscribed "OR GLORY"

enlisting with the United States Naval Reserve

and a minor hole

edge nicks on the SMOStJ

missing the pinback

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Steinhauer & Lück Archive with the regimental ribbon banner(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 tapering pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of