A First War German Parade Mounted Prussian War Aid Merit Medal Bar Grouping Auction Archive soiled original ribbon

soiled original ribbon

and contaminated with  grain-like dirt

and returned to the 19th Infantry Battalion on the 20th

70 mm x 40

HMS Phoebe - BENIN RIVER 1894 (W

A First War German Parade Mounted Prussian War Aid Merit Medal Bar Grouping Auction Archive soiled original ribbonA first war German medal bar grouping with four awards, consisting of 1) An Iron Cross 1914 Second Class, Eisernes Kreuz 1914 2. Klasse; white metal cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a white metal ribbed border; on loop for suspension; the obverse with a raised central W, with the re institution date 1914 in raised numbering on the lower arm, and the royal crown on the upper arm; the reverse with a