Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939 First Class, Screwback Variant, by Paul Meybauer GTRexclude minute corrosion from age)

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partially oxidized along the piping along the edges

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and at 12 o’clock on reverse

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939 First Class, Screwback Variant, by Paul Meybauer GTRexclude minute corrosion from age)(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Re instituted September 1st, 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron 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 is plain with a threaded post accompanied by its backing plate with a threaded male post, marked L 13 for manufacture by Paul