Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, Ii Class Hold or a Wehrmacht breast eagle

or a Wehrmacht breast eagle

This pickelhaube is produced from polished black leather

35mm x 52mm

(Deutscher Schützenverband =DSchV): Gold

inscribed “Tapper Og Tro (Norwegian - Brave and Faithful)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, Ii Class Hold or a Wehrmacht breast eagle(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Instituted on 1. 9. 1939. (Issued 1939 1945). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse plain with an initial institution date of 1813 on the lower arm, on loop for suspension from its period correct replacement ribbon,