Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Clasp to the Iron Cross I Class, Type II, by Steinhauer & Lück Auction Archive In August of 1845 Ernst

In August of 1845 Ernst I began his military service in the 2nd Company of the Ducal Saxony-Altenburg Line Battalion

suspended from a hanger with pinback dated "1939")

and the tradition of wearing this insignia was reintroduced once again

marked with the maker mark in Gothic script “G

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Clasp to the Iron Cross I Class, Type II, by Steinhauer & Lück Auction Archive In August of 1845 Ernst(Wiederholungsspange 1939 zum Eisernen Kreuz I. Klasse 1914, 2. Form). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1940 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a Wehrmacht eagle perched on top of a wreathed mobile swastika, in turn situated above a trapezoidal plaque bearing a raised date of 1939 on a pebbled field, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch emanating from a circular