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AUCTION # 33 ANTIQUE ARMS, ARMOR & DECORATIONS
A German Nazi 1939 Spange to the Iron Cross 2nd class with a ribbon. The award is nickel and silver-plated, in the form of a national eagle with outstretched wings, clutching an oak leaf wreath that encompasses a canted swastika, positioned above a horizontal, trapezoidal, date bar with diagonally angled ends, and the embossed institution date, 1939. On September 1, 1939, Hitler once more reinstituted the Iron Cross series of awards in the First and Second Classes and established the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross and two new Spangen for the first and second class awards to be bestowed to recipients of the 1939 Iron Cross who had also been awarded a first or second class 1914 Iron Cross during WW1.
Dimensions: L: 1 3/4 in., (4.5 cm.)
Condition: VG.
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