Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class By Carl Forster & Graf United Republic of the reverse with standard double-claw

the reverse with standard double-claw prongs and soldered catch (of note is the unevenly stamped upper catch arm signature to Assmann manufacture)

48 mm (w) x 18

eventually to be absorbed into the 3rd Battalion Canadian Machine Gun Corps by early 1918 and continued to see service in France until the end of the war

measuring 52 mm (w) x 13

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class By Carl Forster & Graf United Republic of the reverse with standard double-claw(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed if 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, measuring