Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Berg & Nolte GTRexclude DECEMBER 1873" reverse

DECEMBER 1873" reverse

Also affixed to the tunic with the right shoulder board and top button is an Officer’s aiguillette constructed of multiple rows of twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire

3 mm (w) x 25

a hallmark and "78"

but displaying typical characteristics of Zimmermann manufacture

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Berg & Nolte GTRexclude DECEMBER 1873" reverse(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