8 grams inclusive of ribbon
with each recipient having to purchase his own badge
This particular buckle is illustrated on page 491 of "Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich
3 Casualty Clearing Station on November 24th and then evacuated "sick" to the Canadian Base Depot
with seven additional small brown bakelite buttons stitched in place just underneath their larger counterparts
Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Hold 8 grams inclusive of ribbon(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