Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class Archive a War Cross

a War Cross

in copper-wash bronzed zink

on Luftwaffe backing

by Major Edmund George Barton Reynolds

the son of Evelyn Gray and Violet Auriol Wilkins

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class Archive a War Cross(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a convex 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 central threaded lug retaining a period original backplate and nut,