Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By J.e. Hammer & Söhne Auction Archive with very fine bright red

with very fine bright red threading immediately below

United Spanish War Veterans Cap Badge (die-stamped bronze gilt wreath framing a silvered bar inscribed "USWV"

67mm(height)

69 mm x 33

Stitched onto the peak of the cap is an insignia consisting of a dark grey wool backer bearing a hand-embroidered silver-aluminum wire eagle

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By J.e. Hammer & Söhne Auction Archive with very fine bright red(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