Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class By J.e. Hammer & Söhne GTRexclude with a period/wartime neatly replaced

with a period/wartime neatly replaced center catch for stabilization and a horizontal slender banjo style pinback with a barrel hinge and a flat wire catch

complete with a period safety pin holding it in position on the underside

graduating at the age 22

damage to green enamel on two large stars and to back of small star

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class By J.e. Hammer & Söhne GTRexclude with a period/wartime neatly replaced(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, on loop for suspension from its period correct replacement ribbon, with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse with an initial institution date of 1813 on the lower arm,