Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Archive featuring an original handwritten signature

featuring an original handwritten signature of Vizeadmiral Karl Dönitz

1916 "for war toils"

the interior lid marked with a LDO logo

112 mm x 145 mm)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Archive featuring an original handwritten signature(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 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 44.