Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, Frame 2, by Hermann Aurich Auction Completing the exterior features is

Completing the exterior features is a protruding visor with a card stock core fully lined in identical field-grey wool

A scarce dagger in an overall better than very fine condition

He abdicated after his forces were defeated by the Imperial Austrian army at the Battle of Novara in 1849 and died in exile soon thereafter

this fourteenth day of April

The crossguard is constructed of magnetic metal

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, Frame 2, by Hermann Aurich Auction Completing the exterior features is(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