Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, Privately-Purchased Example, with Case Buy Now contact marks in the background

contact marks in the background below the eagle's head

pinback (previously repaired)

A well-preserved group of objects including: photographs

Embossed with the Royal coat-of-arms with The Earl of "Athlone" (Governor General of Canada) overprint in black at the upper left

The note on the reverse reads: “as an eternal keepsake”

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, Privately-Purchased Example, with Case Buy Now contact marks in the background(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm. (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 wide barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a