Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Eugen Gauss Auction Archive measuring 402 mm in length

measuring 402 mm in length inclusive of its suspension loop

measuring 81 mm (w) x 23 mm (h)

425th Bombardment Squadron

Footnote: The 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS AH began as AH’s personal bodyguard and eventually grew into an elite division-sized unit during the Second World War

tiny chip in the blue enamels on the petal at 10 o'clock

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Eugen Gauss Auction Archive measuring 402 mm in length(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 an Iron Cross 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