An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class By Hammer & Söhne Hold Very fine condition

Very fine condition

Footnote: The development of poisonous gasses used as offensive weapons in the First World War necessitated the development of defensive gas masks and accessories

the Canadian Provost Corps

died December 31

An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class By Hammer & Söhne Hold Very fine conditionAn Eisernes Kreuz 1939 2. Klasse; white metal cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a white metal ribbed border; on loop for suspension (marked 55); with its period original ribbon, with a period attached horizontal pinback; the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm; the reverse with the original institution date 1813 in raised