Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version, by Schauerte & Höhfeld Newly Listed small contact marks and edge

small contact marks and edge knocks

the reverse bearing a central raised inscription of “FÜR VERDIENST” (“FOR MERIT”)

the letter was intercepted by the SS

1903-05” on the bottom

a Manila Mailing Envelope (from "Lt

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version, by Schauerte & Höhfeld Newly Listed small contact marks and edge(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse an Schraubscheibe). 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 restitution date of 1939, the reverse with a central threaded screwpost retaining an original backplate, the twelve oclock arm with a stabilizer, the six