Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Double-Marked By W. Behrens Schmuckwarenfabrik Auction Archive POELLATH SCHROBENM 990 SILBER”

POELLATH SCHROBENM 990 SILBER”

Schmidt most likely earned the U-Boots-Kriegsabzeichen and E

the reverse marked “GES GESCH”

blade exhibits faint scratches common to extraction and return to scabbard

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Double-Marked By W. Behrens Schmuckwarenfabrik Auction Archive POELLATH SCHROBENM 990 SILBER”(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, the suspension loop