Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Second Class Auction Archive privately engraved on AEA

privately engraved on AEA

light crazing on the leather chin strap and vulcanfibre visor

(Wehrmacht Flak Waffenrock)

maker marked “Deschler” & "GES

maker marked Arthus Bertrand on the ring

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Second Class Auction Archive privately engraved on AEA(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, on loop for suspension from its period correct replacement ribbon, with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse with an initial institution date of 1813 on the lower arm,