Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, on Single Parade Mount Archive horizontal banjo style pin

horizontal banjo style pin

loss of lacquer

small chip in the white enamels on the tip of the reverse right arm

it is impossible to imagine what might have happened to the wounded

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, on Single Parade Mount Archive horizontal banjo style pin(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse an Einzelschnalle). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon affixed to a single parade mount with a horizontal pinback, 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