Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Eugen Gauss Archive Fourth Class - In silver

Fourth Class - In silver gilt and enamels

Correspondence Between Maddock and the Navy Department Requesting Six Replacement Medals (which he "held until sometime in 1929")

laid on a deep blue enamelled field

enclosing a signed photo

and some oxidation of the bronze features

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Eugen Gauss Archive Fourth Class - In silver(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 an Iron Cross 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