Germany, Imperial. A Medal Bar for a First War Combatant with Red Cross Service consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and von Bernuth’s signature

and von Bernuth’s signature

Wear evident near the right end on the upper

one just above the left pocket where a badge once existed

It ceased to be conferred with the death of the sultan in 1851

Germany, Imperial. A Medal Bar for a First War Combatant with Red Cross Service consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and von Bernuth’s signatureA First War medal bar comprising six decorations, measuring 156 mm (w), with a horizontal pinback on the reverse: 1. A 1914 Iron Cross II Class, constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension with 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