Footnote: The Battle of Tannenberg was an engagement between the Russian Empire and the German Empire in the first days of World War I
The eagle measures 20 mm (w) x 30 mm (h) and is constructed of bronze with multi-coloured enamels
hallmarked on the reverse of the loop
Both medals mounted to their own original triangular ribbons with hook and eye
The document is dated to Metz
Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Steinhauer & Lück GTRexclude Footnote: The Battle of Tannenberg(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, the suspension loop