Germany, Third Reich. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction the reverse bearing a brief

the reverse bearing a brief handwritten inscription and Feldpost marks

3rd Machine Gun Company of Infantry Regiment 117

maker mark has been scratched out

With the defeat of axis forces in North Africa

Germany, Third Reich. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction the reverse bearing a brief(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, unmarked, measuring