Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version Archive and Territorial Force War Medal

and Territorial Force War Medal (1521 CPL

the interior with 48 paginated pages

occasionally appeared in the society pages of New York newspapers

Footnote: Albert Leo Schlageter

In June 1936

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version Archive and Territorial Force War Medal(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a vaulted 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 central threaded channel retaining an original silvered zink