Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Richard Simm & Söhne Hold Footnote: Established October 9th 1874

Footnote: Established October 9th 1874 by Charles VII of Spain and issued to recognize eminent services to the Carlist cause

1891-1921 Issue

original ribbon with brooch pinback marked "LI-GI"

Stitched onto the peak is an insignia in the form of a T-shaped field-grey rayon backer bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Richard Simm & Söhne Hold Footnote: Established October 9th 1874(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