Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Lug Variant, By Wächtler & Lange consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac at the southern tip of

at the southern tip of Istria peninsula (present-day Croatia)

marked METAL)

After serving in the RAF in the 1950s

and the scabbard’s throat fixture is missing one of its side rivets

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Lug Variant, By Wächtler & Lange consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac at the southern tip of(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 but with the