Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Wagner & Sohn Hold With long original ribbon

With long original ribbon

The bulk of the book entails Portraits and Biographical Notices of the Sixty-Two Officers of the British Army who Lost Their Lives in the Zulu War

00mm (h – inclusive of crown suspension)

A fine and complete example of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Wagner & Sohn Hold With long original ribbon(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 narrow block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round