Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, With Case Auction An Austrian Field Pilot Badge

An Austrian Field Pilot Badge c

together with four enameled white and red heraldic symbol of the nettle leaves (House of Holstein’s coat of arms)

(Wappenschau)

1915 Badge (bronze gilt with red

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, With Case Auction An Austrian Field Pilot Badge(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of brass and silver, consisting of a vaulted Cross Patte with a blackened brass 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 crimped hinge and narrow banjo style pinback meeting a round wire