Germany, Imperial. An Iron Crown Medal Bar for a Distinguished First World War Combatant Hold 23 mm in diameter

23 mm in diameter

and to Lieutenant on October 16

33 mm (w) x 50

the Order was awarded to less than one thousand non-royal individuals in the period between its establishment and elimination following the Russian Revolution of 1917 (Peter himself awarded the Order only 38 times)

bearing the crowned monogram of Kaiser Wilhelm II

Germany, Imperial. An Iron Crown Medal Bar for a Distinguished First World War Combatant Hold 23 mm in diameter(Ordensschnalle). A superb medal and order bar for a distinguished combatant of the First World War, including: 1. A 1914 Iron Cross II Class, on loop for suspension with 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 initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with three