Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class, With 1939 Clasp By Friedrich Orth consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac within a date of “1945”

within a date of “1945”

Banks and Biddle jewelers in Philadelphia

26 General Hospital at Etaples on April 14

and in recent years it has also been awarded to the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force upon retirement

encircled by a silver laurel wreath projecting silver oak leaves onto a blue enamel ring

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class, With 1939 Clasp By Friedrich Orth consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac within a date of “1945”(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 II. Klasse mit Spange 1939). Reinstituted 5 August 1914; clasp instituted 1 September 1939. (1940 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 initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the