Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Bek, Hassinger & Co. Archive measuring 46 mm (w) x

measuring 46 mm (w) x 51

The back of the gorget has the brown colored leather backing and is unmarked

or Ash because the saplings pithy core could be easily bored with a red hot poker or sometimes curly Maple with inlays

Over the course of these five days of air battles

showing several different types of planes

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Bek, Hassinger & Co. Archive measuring 46 mm (w) x(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