Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Klein & Quenzer Archive Set into the breast flaps

Set into the breast flaps are four pleated pockets closing with scalloped flaps

A Feuerschutzpolizei (Fire Protection Police) EM/NCO’s M43-style service cap

Croatian Officer's Brocade Belt: upper with a central band bearing a repeating pattern in red

Silvering wear evident on the reverse of both Collar Tabs

with sixteen pages of colour plates on a coated white paper stock inserted between pages 68 and 69

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Klein & Quenzer Archive Set into the breast flaps(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