Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version, by Rudolf Souval United Republic of the reverse with a barrel

the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo-style pinback meeting a rounded catch

reading “Hermann Petuzzi

II Class (Ministere de l'Interieur): in bronze gilt

marked “3” on reverse

suspended from silver gilt "CORONATION" plaque

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version, by Rudolf Souval United Republic of the reverse with a barrel(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 central threaded lug retaining an original backplate, the former maker marked with LDO code L58 for Rudolf Souval, Vienna,