Germany. An Iron Cross 1939 First Class By Schauerte & Höfeld; Screw-Back Version Buy Now Mounted on swing bar suspension

Mounted on swing bar suspension with pinback

It has a brown wool band around its circumference

to return the attached form

Very light crazing evident in the white enamels on the right arm on the reverse of the Grand Cross Badge

Germany. An Iron Cross 1939 First Class By Schauerte & Höfeld; Screw-Back Version Buy Now Mounted on swing bar suspensionA textbook example of an Iron Cross 1939 First Class (Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1. Klasse) screwback version by Schauerte & Hfeld, Ldenscheid; a cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border; the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm; the reverse plain, with a screw back assembly consisting of a theaded nut and a threaded