Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with Issue Package, by Gottlieb & Wagner Newly Listed measuring 38 mm (w) x

measuring 38 mm (w) x 46 mm (h)

The front is adorned with an extremely large gilt and silver shako plate

the obverse centre bears a Maltese cross paty with a central medallion of two shaking hands through an ornate fixing

within a pebbled gilt ring

arriving in Horlivka in the beginning of July 1942

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with Issue Package, by Gottlieb & Wagner Newly Listed measuring 38 mm (w) x(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, 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 six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, unmarked but