Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Franz Petzl Auction Footnote: The Merit Cross was

Footnote: The Merit Cross was instituted on February 16

maker marked “Rob

It exhibits flaking of the blackening along the top edge and on the crown on the obverse

A Civil Guard Cross of Merit (bronze and blue enamel

signed Auguste von Rathenow and Rathenow

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Franz Petzl Auction Footnote: The Merit Cross was(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 of 1813, the suspension loop maker