Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross II Class, Round 3 Version, by Deschler & Sohn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac DUVIGNAC 1966

DUVIGNAC 1966

supplemented by plates featuring etchings of the decorations of the order with imagery of wear recipients in imperial regalia

with a gilt eight-pointed star superimposed in the centre of the badge behind a round silver gilt applique

Instituted 23 September 1833 by King Friedrich Wilhelm III

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross II Class, Round 3 Version, by Deschler & Sohn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac DUVIGNAC 1966(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, unmarked but