Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, Zink Core Version, by Paulmann & Crone United Republic of itself unmarked and measuring 93

itself unmarked and measuring 93 mm (w) x 35 mm (h)

and the frame is in a better than very fine condition

An elaborate copy of “History of the Turko-Russian War” (“or “Historical Narrative of the Turko-Russian War”)

About 30 of those medals were awarded in bronze

the reverse bearing a maker’s mark of “J

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, Zink Core Version, by Paulmann & Crone United Republic of itself unmarked and measuring 93(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of zink and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened zink core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six o'clock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, unmarked but demonstrating the