Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Eugen Gauss certificate_of_authenticity 165 mm x 215 mm

165 mm x 215 mm

dual prongs on reverse

yet still holding together

as mentioned in the Second Supplement to the London Gazette 32670 of Tuesday

a successor of Halley

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Eugen Gauss certificate_of_authenticity 165 mm x 215 mm(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 an Iron Cross 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