Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Richard Simm & Söhne Hold opened but with all contents

opened but with all contents intact

to keep up morale

1891-1921 Issue

His citation appeared in an Air Ministry Bulletin and in Flight Magazine of October 5

typical WWI manufacture with correct internal iron ring

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Richard Simm & Söhne Hold opened but with all contents(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