Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Steinhauer & Lück Archive the colours of the insignia

the colours of the insignia and swastika having worn off and been replaced by a thin layer of hand-painted white paint

printed in Wittenberg

marked on the lid with the Croatian coat-of-arms above the inscription "REPUBLIKA HRVATSKA"

11 mm (w) x 92

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Steinhauer & Lück Archive the colours of the insignia(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, the pinback maker marked with code 4 for Steinhauer &