Germany, Wehrmacht. A Parade-Mounted 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction measuring 28 mm x 44

measuring 28 mm x 44 mm

a partially-legible maker’s mark ending in “TREß

the exterior bearing a machine-embroidered black inscription of “HEERES-VERWALTUNG” (“ARMY ADMINISTRATION”) in Fraktur script

An embossed pressed leather badge with border edging consisting of a strip of dark brown leather interwoven through holes in the badge

which is unmarked with the exception of a black ink size stamp of “57” on the crown

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Parade-Mounted 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction measuring 28 mm x 44(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 parade mounted ribbon with horizontal pinback and a red wool reverse liner, the decoration 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