Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Steinhauer & Lück Auction and was the first medal

and was the first medal for lower ranking officers and enlisted men

marked 935 PR

the reverse centre bears a crowned Prussia eagle perched on top of an Austrian cannon

the underlying framework in a thatched wicker-like material

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Steinhauer & Lück Auction and was the first medal(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