Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, by Johann Wagner & Sohn certificate_of_authenticity Service Records and twenty-seven black

Service Records and twenty-seven black and white ship photographs

the reverse is inscribed EUROPAE LIBERTATE ASSERTA MDCCCXIII MDCCCXIV (For assuring liberty of Europe 1813-1814)

WIEN” which has been applied upside-down

The highest quality of this type we have had the pleasure of offering

crossguard and quillon sufaces are finely detailed

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, by Johann Wagner & Sohn certificate_of_authenticity Service Records and twenty-seven black(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, 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 1914, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round