Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with Ribbon Bar visually-hidden enabling Lau to enter all

enabling Lau to  enter all factories of the aviation industry

1918 at Shorncliffe

Silvered alloy

reading “Ernst Fricke

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with Ribbon Bar visually-hidden enabling Lau to enter all(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse mit Bandschnalle). 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,