Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Lug Variant, By Wächtler & Lange consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac until the attack of January

until the attack of January 1917

A textbook example of a silver grade “Bandenkampfabzeichen”

and the scabbard’s throat fixture is missing one of its side rivets

with various icons of war on either side (rifle

marked METAL)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Lug Variant, By Wächtler & Lange consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac until the attack of January(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 with the