Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class, With 1939 Clasp Auction Archive after some delay

after some delay

A Second War American Silver Star

1942 "awarded in field"

badly bruised and shaken

49 mm x 64 mm

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class, With 1939 Clasp Auction Archive after some delay(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 II. Klasse mit Spange zum Eisernen Kreuz). Reinstituted 5 August 1914. (1914 1918 issue; Clasp 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 initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the