Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By Wächtler & Lange, Dietrich Maerz Collection United Republic of the reverse presenting a frame

the reverse presenting a frame with prong

Dresden A 16

reverse in silver gilt

and identified her as USS Asheville

on tattered ribbons

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By Wächtler & Lange, Dietrich Maerz Collection United Republic of the reverse presenting a frame(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 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 with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback marked with LDO code L55 for