the front cover with an illustration of the table medal backed by a ribbon of the Medal for the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War on the lefts side
colour photographs on the cloth-based front and back covers
the centre bears three metal plaques
exposing the underlying steel base
given that the Bayonne Statute issued in 1808 under Joseph Bonaparte never entered into effect
Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class United Republic of the front cover with an(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, unmarked, measuring