Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Hold SIEPER & SOHNE LUDENSCHEID

SIEPER & SOHNE LUDENSCHEID

England for Australia on February 23

the reverse shows the text “WINTERSCHLACHT IM OSTEN 1941/42” (“WINTER BATTLE IN THE EAST 1941/42”)

measuring 68 mm (w) x 70 mm (l) x 16 mm (h)

A grouping of five second war Luftwaffe insignia

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Hold SIEPER & SOHNE LUDENSCHEID(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,