Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Lug Variant, By Wächtler & Lange GTRexclude 78 mm (w) x 44

78 mm (w) x 44

surrounded by elegant enameled red border with French inscription L'UNION FAIT LA FORCE

MICHAELIS” and impressed “18” on 6 o’clock point of star and near bottom of Andean condor suspension

(the rank of Obersturmführer was considered the equivalent of an Oberleutnant in the German Wehrmacht)

the First War medals with a conjoined pinback

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Lug Variant, By Wächtler & Lange GTRexclude 78 mm (w) x 44(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, unmarked but with the