Description
The shako measures 200 mm (w) x 250 mm (l) x 165 mm (h) (not inclusive of cockade)
visiting the Whitehall Theatre
with minor oxidation and loss of painted finish evident
Republic: Army Medal
with an outer blue enamel ring with nine clouds in white enamels
Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Auction The shako measures 200 mm(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