on a red artillery Waffenfarbe backer
Bronze insignia on two colour ribbon strip with olive green backer
The collar is fully trimmed with red piping
accompanied by its packet of issue with “Eisernes Kreuz 2
(Infanterie-Sturmabzeichen in Silber
Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Steinhauer & Lück United Republic of on a red artillery Waffenfarbe(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with PKZ code 4 for Steinhauer & Lck, Ldenscheid, measuring 44. 26 mm (w) x 44. 24 mm (h), weighing 18. 1 grams, in extremely