Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Archive a rare award

a rare award

2 mm (w) x 79

lightly soiled original ribbon with its ends sewn together

with period neck ribbon

85 mm x 192 mm)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Archive a rare award(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. 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 arn with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the twelve oclock arm with an integral loop accommodating a suspension ring