Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class Auction Archive one month shy of his

one month shy of his twenty-seventh birthday

weighing 20

A 1938 Leipzig Deutsche Gepäckmarsch-Meisterschaft badge (8

Non-Battle (DNB) on February 24

30 mm x 83 mm

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class Auction Archive one month shy of his(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, 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 a vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 43. 01 mm (w) x 42. 73 mm (h),