Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Johann Wagner & Sohn Buy Now 7mm including crown suspension)

7mm including crown suspension)

older ribbon accompanies medal but in two pieces

imported from countries without a trading contact to France since 1893

The bayonet is in an overall near extremely fine condition

89x130 mm photo taken in the summer of 1943

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Johann Wagner & Sohn Buy Now 7mm including crown suspension)(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 mobile swastika, 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 narrow vertical pinback meeting a round