Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Steinhauer & Lück Auction Archive German trenches very heavily manned

German trenches very heavily manned and enemy very much on the alert

and in 1872

the obverse bearing a printed and multi-colouted unit insignia

dated June 28

bright red cloth cover with a pebbled texture

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Steinhauer & Lück Auction Archive German trenches very heavily manned(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