Germany, Heer. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with Award Document and Memorial Photo, to Unteroffizier WIlhelm Baarck consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 250 mm (w) x

measuring 250 mm (w) x 335 mm (h)

the outer ring of the rosette in red

The obverse ricasso incorporates an etched Damascus six-pointed star

or to those who have exemplified outstanding merits

Version Two (in browning copper

Germany, Heer. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with Award Document and Memorial Photo, to Unteroffizier WIlhelm Baarck consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 250 mm (w) x(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse mit Verleihungsurkunde und Foto). 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