Description
Product Description: A very nice 2nd Class EK2 Spange in overall excellent condition. This EK2 Spange is complete with impressive polished highlights and a nice frosted silver finish remaining. 2nd Class example with all four reverse prongs remaining intact without damage or repairs. Unmarked, with characteristics of a piece produced by Wilhelm Deumer. Overall a very appealing 2nd Class EK2 Spange, which would be hard to upgrade!
Historical Description: With the reintroduction of the Iron Cross on September 1, 1939, a special new award was created, the “Wiederholungsspange,” to recognize those who had earned the 1914 Iron Cross during WWI and whose actions in this new war merited again being awarded the Iron Cross. The two grades of this new award followed the criteria of first and second class iron crosses respectively. Both grades took the form of a German national eagle and swastika emblem, with outstretched wings, over a bar with the date “1939.” The First-Class award, like the First Class Iron Cross, had a pin attachment or screw back, to enable it to be worn on the uniform pocket over the 1914 Iron Cross. Some combo-type awards are also known, with the Spange fastened to the top arm of the 1914 cross. The Second Class Spange had two or four prongs on the reverse and was affixed to a length of 1914 black and white pattern Iron Cross ribbon. Most of the Spange awards were made of a brass alloy (Buntmetall) with a silver electroplated finish, while late war examples were produced from zinc with a silver wash. As with most German combat awards, there were many variations of the Spange produced, including miniature awards for the ribbon bar.
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