Germany, Wehrmacht. A Parade-Mounted 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac for button-hole wear

for button-hole wear

maker marked “ANTON REITERER

marked with an anchor (made in Birmingham)

Each are marked Assmann

taking KB-834 with the RAF bomber streams straight south over England

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Parade-Mounted 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac for button-hole wear(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, affixed to a parade mount with a horizontal pinback and red wool reverse liner, 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