Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Fritz Zimmermann Hold trimmed with machine-embroidered silver aluminum

trimmed with machine-embroidered silver aluminum wire rays

as he had worked thirty-five years at Forestry and Landscape gardening and wished to work in the same field if his health would allow for it

with a small band decoration in the middle of the two lowest leaves

A Gold Grade Mother's Cross by C

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Fritz Zimmermann Hold trimmed with machine-embroidered silver aluminum(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