Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Steinhauer & Lück With Case Archive Imperial: Hindenburg Cross for Combatants

Imperial: Hindenburg Cross for Combatants with crossed bronze swords

The black leather "scrum" (headpiece) has a chocolate brown wool underside

Oswald Pohl (1892–1951)

ELLIS 20 BN

the obverse inscribed “Grati Princeps Et Patria Carolvs Imp

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Steinhauer & Lück With Case Archive Imperial: Hindenburg Cross for Combatants(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 flat wire catch, pinback maker marked with code 4 for Steinhauer & Lck,