Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version, By Paul Meybauer Auction Archive pin assembly had been removed

pin assembly had been removed

with the structure maintained by a magnetic metal crossbar completing in a flattened pommel

later wrote

as a Major with the 6th Field Battery

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version, By Paul Meybauer Auction Archive pin assembly had been removed(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 core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with an reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a central threaded lug retaining a period original backplate, the twelve oclock arm with a stabilizing pin, the six oclock arm maker