Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version, by Otto Schickle Auction Archive FORSTERER / C

FORSTERER / C

the decoration is issued by the United States Army

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

of copper bronze

and pinned with gilded bronze NSDAP-style German national eagles clutching wreathed swastika

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version, by Otto Schickle Auction Archive FORSTERER / C(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