Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction allowing the wearer to adjust

allowing the wearer to adjust the helmet

each service also used different criteria in determining whether a "V" could be authorized

The collar is marked in handwritten black ink "GC4" and "38"

Footnote: This is an original Second War Era Luftwaffe fire brigade visor and would have been worn by civilian fire brigade NCO’s

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction allowing the wearer to adjust(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