Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Clasp to the Iron Cross II Class, Type II, by Ziemer & Söhne Auction Mount Royal Rifles

Mount Royal Rifles

Puttkamer had been taken over into the Reichsmarine after the war and became an Oberleutnant zu See (Naval Senior Lieutenant) in 1923

Mary Harley of Hamilton

the red star indicating an award to a combatant

reverse inscribed ""CE METAL PROVIENT DES CHAINES DE L'ANCIENNE SERVITUDE DU PEUPLE FRANCAIS QUE LOUIS XVI A FAIT BRISER / LE 14 JUILLET 1789""

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Clasp to the Iron Cross II Class, Type II, by Ziemer & Söhne Auction Mount Royal Rifles(Wiederholungsspange 1939 zum Eisernen Kreuz II. Klasse 1914 2. Form). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1940 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of a Wehrmacht eagle perched on top of a wreathed mobile swastika, in turn situated above a trapezoidal plaque bearing a raised date of 1939 on a pebbled background, the reverse retaining all four attachment prongs, accompanied by its original Third Reich period ribbon, unmarked