Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Franz Petzl consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac closing with further images of

closing with further images of personnel on review and large group photo (notably with an Obersturmführer wearing an assault gun wrap and two Tank Destruction Badges front and centre)

with a black embroidered centre

each perforated at the top with an eyelet for the accommodation of a drawstring (with a small portion of the former retained)

As his father was deceased

but mostly gone otherwise

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Franz Petzl consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac closing with further images of(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 of 1813, the suspension loop maker