Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Steinhauer & Lück Buy Now measuring 21 mm (w) x

measuring 21 mm (w) x 33 mm (h)

Some cracking of the visor’s cardboard core is evident

horizontal pinback (slightly damaged and corroded from age)

marked with Russian Imperial eagle on reverse 12 o'clock arm as well as makers mark "IK" denoting Julius Keibel of St

He was no doubt pensioned out of the Royal Navy before the outbreak of World War II and was recalled to duty

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Steinhauer & Lück Buy Now measuring 21 mm (w) x(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