Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Newly Listed including a large studio portrait

including a large studio portrait

" (Canadian Lamp Company)

Footnote: The Merchant Service Medal was awarded to those who served in the Irish Merchant Navy during the Emergency period

engraved: "PRESENTED TO PTE Harry McNeill 248th Bn"

In sterling silver gilt with white enamels

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Newly Listed including a large studio portrait(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). 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 44. 14 mm (w) x 47. 43 mm (h), weighing 16. 9 grams,