Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction Archive circumscribing the firm’s centaur logo

circumscribing the firm’s centaur logo

resulting in the war crime of the shooting of almost 100 British POWs

ink smudging evident from the original screen-printing process

in leather case of issue)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction Archive circumscribing the firm’s centaur logo(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, measuring