Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross, I Class, Screwback Archive trimmed with green rayon waffenfarbe

trimmed with green rayon waffenfarbe and mounted on tan buckram base

Badge in silvered bronze (silver grade)

This initial meeting went quickly

in the first half of 1944

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross, I Class, Screwback Archive trimmed with green rayon waffenfarbe(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 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 reverse with a lug and backplate with a nut, the nut bearing a silver content number of 800 with a star,