Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, Privately-Purchased Example Newly Listed Patriotic Order of Merit (Vaterländischer

Patriotic Order of Merit (Vaterländischer Verdienstorden)

trimmed with interwoven silver aluminum wire and dark grey wool threaded piping

very nice quality with fine silvering

with only light scratches on the blade common to extraction and return to the scabbard

Three Third Reich Badges - NSAD Remembrance Badge (silvered bronze with red

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, Privately-Purchased Example Newly Listed Patriotic Order of Merit (Vaterländischer(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a vaulted 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 barrel hinge affixed to an elongated mount and tapering vertical