Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by E. Ferdinand Wiedmann Auction Archive unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics

unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of an exhibition example produced by Rudolf Souval

In aluminum with twelve deep red painted fields

from August 11 to 19

It then became the Italian garrison of the occupied or annexed territories of the Kingdom of Albania and the Italian governorate of Montenegro until the Italian surrender in 1943

cloth and paper backing added post War

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by E. Ferdinand Wiedmann Auction Archive unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension with 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