Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Anton Schenkls Nachfolger GTRexclude 30mm (standard medal measures 40mm)

30mm (standard medal measures 40mm)

the knife measuring 247 mm in length

(Type I) In silver gilt

the Battalion was absorbed into the 69th Infantry Battalion It was disbanded September 15

This is an extremely well-preserved edition of the “Handbook on German Military Forces”

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Anton Schenkls Nachfolger GTRexclude 30mm (standard medal measures 40mm)(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