Germany, Heer. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with Award Document and Memorial Photo, to Unteroffizier WIlhelm Baarck Auction Archive with a crown and crescent

with a crown and crescent moon indicating German manufacture and a silver content number of “800”

(HJ Sommerkampfspiele Sieger Abzeichen)

and finally to Rear Admiral on September 1

Medal for the Defence of the Soviet Polar Regions (Arctic) (Медаль «За оборону Советского Заполярья (Арктики)»)

so the number stated on the picture is slightly too generous)

Germany, Heer. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with Award Document and Memorial Photo, to Unteroffizier WIlhelm Baarck Auction Archive with a crown and crescent(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse mit Verleihungsurkunde und Foto). 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