Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac the obverse bearing a raised

the obverse bearing a raised Reich Air Protection League (RLB) insignia

Footnote: After Germany’s invasion of Poland in September 1939

the obverse bears a soldier wearing a backpack holding a gun

Nova Scotia and a charter member of the British Isles Club of Halifax

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac the obverse bearing a raised(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, unmarked, measuring