Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Hold (Pour le Mérite Miniatur)

(Pour le Mérite Miniatur)

pine green simulated cracked leather-look exterior

Combatant's Cross (in bronze

the outer ring inscribed "GAUMEISTERSCHAFT 1936" above and "GAU HANSA" flanked by swastikas below

Royal Canadian Army Service Corps at Halifax

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Hold (Pour le Mérite Miniatur)(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, unmarked, measuring