Germany, Empire. A Pair of First World War Service Decorations ( Iron Cross 1914 / Military Merit Cross) visually-hidden with the underside exposed in

with the underside exposed in classic Dachau style

Since 1945

Constructed of tan-coloured cotton bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika

maker marked E

button illustrating the Victorian crown surrounded by an open-ended wreath of laurel leaves at the neck end

Germany, Empire. A Pair of First World War Service Decorations ( Iron Cross 1914 / Military Merit Cross) visually-hidden with the underside exposed inA pair of First World War service decorations, consisting of: 1. Iron Cross 1914 II. Class. (Eisernes Kreuz 1914 II. Klasse). Re instituted August 5th, 1914. Constructed of iron and silver, on a swivel loop for suspension from its Third Reich period replacement 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,