Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, Ii Class, By Friedrich Keller Auction Clayoquot Sound

Clayoquot Sound

JANUAR" with the signtaure of Wilhelm I below

When the German forces had to fall back during the Russian offensives of 1944 Bruns and his troops retreated through the Balkans

board mounted

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, Ii Class, By Friedrich Keller Auction Clayoquot Sound(1939 Eisernes Kreuz II. Klasse). A cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse with an initial institution date of 1813 on the lower arm, marked on ring with number 66 for maker Friedrich Keller, Oberstein, measuring 44. 45 mm (w) x 48. 24 mm (h), weighing