Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Klein & Quenzer Auction Footnote: The Order claims descent

Footnote: The Order claims descent from Godfrey de Bouillon and the knights who protected the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem at the time of the first Crusade

Charles Torryburn Brimer R

are maker marked and coded on the reverse

the designs are composed of waves and vertical lines and do not demonstrate individual feathers

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Klein & Quenzer Auction Footnote: The Order claims descent(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, the suspension loop