Prussia, Kingdom. An 1870 Iron Cross Ii Class Newly Listed 58 x 54 mm

58 x 54 mm

with a center catch for stabilization and a horizontal banjo style pinback with a barrel hinge and a flat wire catch

with push pin attachment

during Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands

Reserve Bn

Prussia, Kingdom. An 1870 Iron Cross Ii Class Newly Listed 58 x 54 mm(Eisernes Kreuz 1870 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 19 July 1870. (1870 1871 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 initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1870, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with three central oak leaves, the six oclock