Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, Cased and Owner-Attributed, by Wagner & Sohn Newly Listed on off-white tissue paper

on off-white tissue paper

the eagle standing upon a semi-circular frame bearing branches of laurel leaves and oak leaves

Ontario when he signed his Attestation Paper as a Private (6424715) with the 157th Infantry Battalion "Simcoe Foresters"

marked on end ring with a silver hallmark denoting Austro-Hungarian manufacture between 1872-1922

The book measures 14

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, Cased and Owner-Attributed, by Wagner & Sohn Newly Listed on off-white tissue paper(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse mit Etui). 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