Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Franz Petzl Newly Listed The cover is an unworn

The cover is an unworn example

Footnote: The International Gliding Commission awarded a series of proficiency badges to glider pilots on their successful completion of the appropriate tests and gliding trials

inscribed "September 1917" on the reverse

stamped with the Imperial Crown and inscribed "ОРДЕНЪ ЗА ГРАЖДАНСКА ЗАСЛУГА IV CIII

the obverse bears the crowned cipher “FAR” (Friedrich August Rex) encompassed by a laurel wreath

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Franz Petzl Newly Listed The cover is an unworn(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