Germany, Imperial. A Medal Bar For First World War Service, With Ribbon Bar Auction illustrating an insignia in the

illustrating an insignia in the centre with a swastika below and flanked by wheat sheaves

A Coastal Artillery Badge by Schwerin of Berlin - In gilded and patinated tombac

while his Purple Heart is engraved "1st LT

78th Field Artillery (bronze gilt with red and black enamels

often at a community ceremony

Germany, Imperial. A Medal Bar For First World War Service, With Ribbon Bar Auction illustrating an insignia in the(Ordensschnalle mit Bandschnalle). A medal bar for First World War Service featuring four decorations, including a 1914 Iron Cross I 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 crown,