Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction Archive featuring sets of multiple rays

featuring sets of multiple rays in each quadrant

1919: relieved of command of the German Austrian Flying Troops after voluntarily leaving duty with the State Office for Army Units

measuring 68 mm x 86 mm

gilded brass hilt fittings exhibit moderate wear and age patina

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction Archive featuring sets of multiple rays(Eisernes Kreuz 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 maker