Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Archive maker marked "BIRMINGHAM MEDAL Co"

maker marked "BIRMINGHAM MEDAL Co"

7 mm (w) x 41

1892-1918 Issue

AURICH DRESDEN" and dated "1940"

page 10967 and in Flight Magazine of Thursday

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Archive maker marked "BIRMINGHAM MEDAL Co"(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