Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Clasp to the Iron Cross I Class, Type A with Case, by B.H. Mayer visually-hidden (Silberne Verdienstmedaille Museumsstück)

(Silberne Verdienstmedaille Museumsstück)

stamped with “0538 - 3/San

unmarked however demonstrating the manufacturing characteristics typical of C

the other on a 24 mm long stickpin

Henderson M

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Clasp to the Iron Cross I Class, Type A with Case, by B.H. Mayer visually-hidden (Silberne Verdienstmedaille Museumsstück)(Wiederholungsspange 1939 zum Eisernen Kreuz 1. Klasse 1914, 2. Form mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1940 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of a Wehrmacht eagle perched on top of a wreathed mobile swastika, in turn situated above a trapezoidal plaque bearing a date of 1939 on a pebbled background, the reverse with a barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but