Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class United Republic of with SS EM/NCO buckle construction

with SS EM/NCO buckle construction in prior years being from nickel and then aluminum and eventually a few were even made in zinc

Multi-piece construction oval gilded zink alloy with a silvered bronze

minor gilt loss and oxidation

1914 with a compliment of 44 officers and 1

Pforzheim” printed in black gothic lettering on the reverse

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class United Republic of with SS EM/NCO buckle construction(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945). 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, measuring 44. 20