Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Steinhauer & Lück Auction II Class Silver Grade (Honneur

II Class Silver Grade (Honneur - Travail): in silver

51 General Hospital in Etaples

The backs of the earrings feature a threaded post with screw backings

tied together by a maker’s tag by “Carld Siedler Uniformeffekten-Fabrik

while the yellowish-orange synthetic grip features a series of ten parallel ridges and is free of cracks but does exhibit the same expected contact marks

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Steinhauer & Lück Auction II Class Silver Grade (Honneur(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