Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class, Non-Combatant GTRexclude Navy Department in Washington

Navy Department in Washington

the wreckage bursting into flames

the obverse with a central raised Heer-style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika

including its period original pocket of issue

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class, Non-Combatant GTRexclude Navy Department in Washington(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 II. Klasse fr Nichtkmpfer). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from a postwar non combatants replacement 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, the