Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Gustav Brehmer United Republic of clockwise from the bottom: "SIOUX

clockwise from the bottom: "SIOUX

with a mandate to prepare Portuguese female youth for their roles as wives and mothers in accordance with the Estado Novo's traditionalist milieu

veteran-assembled lot of eight badges and medals

(Kriegsmarine Sommer Uniform)

the obverse bearing a grey machine-embroidered Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross II Class, by Gustav Brehmer United Republic of clockwise from the bottom: "SIOUX(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