Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By J.e. Hammer & Söhne Auction Archive 67mm(height)

67mm(height)

with very fine bright red threading immediately below

however it is obscured by the very tight fitting frog

Stitched onto the peak of the cap is an insignia consisting of a dark grey wool backer bearing a hand-embroidered silver-aluminum wire eagle

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By J.e. Hammer & Söhne Auction Archive 67mm(height)(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