Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class With Case Auction Second Class

Second Class

After the Mariana Islands

66 mm (w) x 79

After the attack on Russia

particularly in the autumn of 1915

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class With Case Auction Second Class(1914 Eisernes Kreuz I. Klasse) Reinstituted by Kaiser Wilhelm II 5 August 1914. (1914 1918 Issue). A 1914 Iron Cross Second Class, presenting as a Cross Pate of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed silver border, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a raised central W, with the re institution date 1914 in raised numbering on the lower arm, and the royal crown on the upper