Germany, Wehrmacht. A Parade-Mounted 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction maker marked “DR

maker marked “DR

the exterior bearing a machine-embroidered black inscription of “HEERES-VERWALTUNG” (“ARMY ADMINISTRATION”) in Fraktur script

a partially-legible maker’s mark ending in “TREß

which is unmarked with the exception of a black ink size stamp of “57” on the crown

Dated to Berlin on September 2

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Parade-Mounted 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction maker marked “DR(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 parade mounted ribbon with horizontal pinback and a red wool reverse liner, the decoration 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