Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Anton Schenkls Nachfolger Auction Archive maker marked Atelier Gaugler

maker marked Atelier Gaugler

Constructed of pressed heavy card stock with a field-grey exterior

While moving by truck convoy along Route #1

for personnel of the United Nations' Air Forces spending leave in New York)

Inside has a leather-framed cradle supporting a blackened canvas liner with underlying burlap support and leather backer

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Anton Schenkls Nachfolger Auction Archive maker marked Atelier Gaugler(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