Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Newly Listed 5 cm and a blade

5 cm and a blade of 30

However 15/6 was a large sum of money for many poorer families so 6d (six pence) savings stamps were issued (also with a Swastika on them) which could be purchased weekly or whenever people could afford them

constructed of fine quality multi-coloured machine embroidery on a black wool backer

Officer for Forty Years' Service

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Newly Listed 5 cm and a blade(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, unmarked, measuring