Germany. An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class GTRexclude 41 mm x 64 mm

41 mm x 64 mm inclusive of its crown suspension

8 rounds being fired

both with edge nicks

maker marked "W SCULLY LTD" on the reverse

a month shy of his seventieth birthday

Germany. An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class GTRexclude 41 mm x 64 mm(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 2. Klasse). A cross pattee of multi piece construction, with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed frame; on a loop for suspension unmarked; accompanied by a period original ribbon (moderately ripped); the obverse the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm; the reverse with the original institution date 1813 in raised numbering on the lower