Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Friedrich Orth Republic of between September 12 and October

between September 12 and October 21

suspended from an ornate bar suspension

A grouping of two early political eagle stick pins

The dome is lined in a dark yellow nylon and incorporates a dark orange moisture shield

marked with AB&Cie makers mark on ring and a double struck boars head denoting a silver guarantee on the ribbon t 6 o’clock

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Friedrich Orth Republic of between September 12 and October(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of silver and brass, consisting of a post manufacture vaulted Cross Patte with a blackened brass 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 banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with a partially