Germany, Wehrmacht. A Parade-Mounted 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction An embossed pressed leather badge

An embossed pressed leather badge with border edging consisting of a strip of dark brown leather interwoven through holes in the badge

The silver medal was awarded to all ranks of military personnel or to civilians

the upper chain composed of four links

the exterior bearing a machine-embroidered black inscription of “HEERES-VERWALTUNG” (“ARMY ADMINISTRATION”) in Fraktur script

measuring 28 mm x 44 mm

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Parade-Mounted 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction An embossed pressed leather badge(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 parade mounted ribbon with horizontal pinback and a red wool reverse liner, the decoration 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