Germany, Imperial. A Mint 1914 Iron Cross II Class, with Period Case, by Wilhelm Deumer, c. 1940 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Hamburg 24)

Hamburg 24)

1907 and signed in black ink “von Schack”

Naming is neatly privately engraved in large capitals & inverted

With the outbreak of the Second World War

obverse illustrating the right-facing bust of King Vittorio Emanuele III

Germany, Imperial. A Mint 1914 Iron Cross II Class, with Period Case, by Wilhelm Deumer, c. 1940 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Hamburg 24)(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 II. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 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 initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with three