Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross with Swords, Silver Grade Archive 1914 Iron Cross 2nd Class

1914 Iron Cross 2nd Class

consisting of a Maltese cross with white enamel arms

Footnote: The Civil Order of Alfonso XII was founded by King Alfonso XIII on May 23

late King Edward

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross with Swords, Silver Grade Archive 1914 Iron Cross 2nd Class(Spanienkreuz in Silber mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a vaulted Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by Luftwaffe eagles clutching mobile swastika, bearing a central raised mobile swastika situated within dual rings, the reverse with a block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flattened catch, unmarked, measuring 57. 16 mm (w) x