Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by J.E. Hammer & Söhne Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Gold-filled casing

Gold-filled casing

National Order of Merit with Rosette

Footnote: Saint Dionysios of Zakynthos was a sixteenth-century Orthodox Christian Archbishop of Aegina

measuring approximately 17cm (6 3/4 inches) by 11cm (4 inches)

The Order is one of a number created by 'Marie de Lusignan'

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by J.E. Hammer & Söhne Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Gold-filled casing(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