Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Variant, by Alois Rettenmaier consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac with loss of fire gilt

with loss of fire gilt

On December 1942

with an elongated suspension loop and period orange ribbon

A Military Long Service Cross (Militärdienstzeichen)

An Artur Becker Medal

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Variant, by Alois Rettenmaier consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac with loss of fire gilt(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 reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a central threaded screw post, with a stabilizer emanating from the twelve oclock arm, marked with LDO code L59