Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Berlin Newly Listed maroon leather wrapped with gilt

maroon leather wrapped with gilt embossing

and round wire catch as well as two down-ward facing hooks for attachment to an uniform

the dagger measuring 345 mm overall

as well as facilitating ethnographic studies in the Balkans and Eastern Europe

constructed of forest-green wool

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Berlin Newly Listed maroon leather wrapped with gilt(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