Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Wächtler & Lange visually-hidden 8 mm in height x

8 mm in height x 29 mm in depth

within a laurel wreath and above an inscription of “VIRTUTE” (“VIRTUE”)

issued by the Austrian/Vienna Department of Economics and Labour Protection

on loop for suspension (marked)

inscribed HONI * SOIT * QUI * MAL * Y * PENSE * (SHAME ON HIM WHO THINK ILL OF IT)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by Wächtler & Lange visually-hidden 8 mm in height x(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). 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 block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei