Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Fritz Zimmermann United Republic of The thin brown leather blade

The thin brown leather blade washer remains fully intact and attached to the sword

the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting an integrated flattened catch

and blue tricolour

round badge featuring the profile of AH

signed in blue ink by Wolfgang Schulze von Mertschinsky

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Fritz Zimmermann United Republic of The thin brown leather blade(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