Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Rudolf Souval Auction 2nd Class Cross for Twenty-Five

2nd Class Cross for Twenty-Five Years' Service (silvered bronze with black enamels

including one for a Coastal Artillery War Badge

original shortened ribbon with white plastic buttons sewn in place at either end of the reverse

published in 1943 by W

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Rudolf Souval Auction 2nd Class Cross for Twenty-Five(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, 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 with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of