Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Steinhauer & Lück Auction two Artillery Collar Tabs (bronze

two Artillery Collar Tabs (bronze

has a blue and white fringe around the perimeter of the medal

This particular buckle is illustrated on page 229 of "Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich

the reverse twelve o’clock arm with an unidentified master’s mark of “ИЛ”

It was awarded to workers

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Steinhauer & Lück Auction two Artillery Collar Tabs (bronze(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