Germany, Wehrmacht. A Parade-Mounted 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction An embossed pressed leather badge

An embossed pressed leather badge with border edging consisting of a strip of dark brown leather interwoven through holes in the badge

the upper chain composed of four links

maker marked “DR

Dated to Berlin on September 2

the exterior bearing a machine-embroidered black inscription of “HEERES-VERWALTUNG” (“ARMY ADMINISTRATION”) in Fraktur script

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Parade-Mounted 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction An embossed pressed leather badge(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 parade mounted ribbon with horizontal pinback and a red wool reverse liner, the decoration 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