Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Brüder Schneider Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic and border by a silver

and border by a silver aluminum wire tresse

(Militarverdienstmedaille)

marked “la royale Rio

very light contact to enamels

6mm (h) and weighing 24

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Brüder Schneider Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic and border by a silver(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