Germany, Wehrmacht. An Unusual Medal Bar for an Eastern Front Combatant certificate_of_authenticity severed exterior paper hinge

severed exterior paper hinge

The blade is met at the upper crossguard by a blackened leather washer fitting securely at the base

at some point in the 1920s to Charles Willoughby

the kurikata (knob) is present 38mm from the Koiguchi (scabbard mouth)

Dorothy May of Balham

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Unusual Medal Bar for an Eastern Front Combatant certificate_of_authenticity severed exterior paper hinge(Ordensschnalle). An unusual medal bar for an Eastern Front combatant featuring fix decorations, including: 1 A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension with its period original early issue 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