one with a button hole attachment
The upper right breast bears an insignia in the form of a dark grey trapezoid patch with a field-grey cotton threaded backer overlaid by a silver-grey Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika
Attached the the top of the case is a loop
vertical pinback (replaced/repaired)
on a six-pointed star base
Germany, Wehrmacht. A Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, Late-War Type B by Steinhauer and Lück, with Dietrich Maerz Certification United Republic of one with a button hole(Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes). 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 six oclock arm bearing a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the twelve oclock arm topped by an integral loop, also stamped on the reverse with a Prsidialkanzlei code of