Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross II Class, with Rare Case for Austrian-Style Ribbon Newly Listed FRAUENSCHAFT”

FRAUENSCHAFT”

Louis-Simon Boizot

1940 (in die-stamped aluminum with twelve red lacquered fields

but we were sometimes sent to a German airfield ahead of time

(c) Shoulder Flash: in red wool

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross II Class, with Rare Case for Austrian-Style Ribbon Newly Listed FRAUENSCHAFT”(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 tri fold (Austrian style) 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,