Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, by Wagner & Sohn Newly Listed a Wound Badge Third Class

a Wound Badge Third Class

Heart action is somewhat rapid

obverse centre presenting a blue enameled cross with red and white boarders

with a period original ribbon stitched around its backplate

and to the Earl of Lytton

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, by Wagner & Sohn Newly Listed a Wound Badge Third Class(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (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 barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch,