Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross II Class, on Parade Mount consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 37 mm x 64 mm)

37 mm x 64 mm)

40 mm x 53

Footnote: All Knight's Cross Recipient Photographs originate from a single & extremely large collection acquired by eMedals in 2008

rim has been shaved down and privately engraved 41647 SERGT

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross II Class, on Parade Mount consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 37 mm x 64 mm)(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 II. Klasse an Einzelschnalle). Reinstituted 5 August by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon affixed to a parade mount with a horizontal pinback, 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