Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Franz Petzl Auction contact marks but overall near

contact marks but overall near very fine condition

It features a gilded sunwheel swastika (Hakenkreuz) with the majority of the original gilding still intact

an example featured in the 1938/1939 Allach catalogue

handling most of his personal correspondence

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Franz Petzl Auction contact marks but overall near(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, the suspension loop