Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Fritz Zimmermann GTRexclude 65 mm in diameter

65 mm in diameter

the Cross is officially engraved

/Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 189

right-facing (viewer’s left)

marked “2” and “800” on reverse

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Fritz Zimmermann GTRexclude 65 mm in diameter(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, unmarked but