Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Klein & Quenzer Archive smooth finished dark brown leather

smooth finished dark brown leather tab stitched in place to the underside

Footnote: Prior to the establishment of the Order of the Star of Romania in 1877

Footnote: Private Frederick Sidney Claude Harper served as a Private (10621) with the Somerset Light Infantry during the First World War and entered the French theatre on July 24

pleasant patina from age

He was struck off strength on transfer to the 1st Anti-Aircraft Battery on February 1

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Klein & Quenzer Archive smooth finished dark brown leather(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