Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, on Single Parade Mount Archive small chip in the white

small chip in the white enamels on the tip of the reverse right arm

Footnote: The Defence Forces Reserve Service Medal was instituted in June 1961 and awarded to members of An Fórsa Cosanta Áitiúil or An Slua Muirí for seven years' service with the Defence Forces Reserves

loss of lacquer

A post-war assembled dagger constructed of period original dagger parts

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, on Single Parade Mount Archive small chip in the white(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse an Einzelschnalle). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon affixed to a single parade mount with a horizontal pinback, 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