Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, by Johann Wagner & Sohn certificate_of_authenticity wooden handle with horizontal etchings

wooden handle with horizontal etchings

the boards are secured in place with stitching at the outer edge and with pebbled buttons on the inner edge

Service Records and twenty-seven black and white ship photographs

The original owner has had his initials "S

otherwise I can be dangerously mean

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, by Johann Wagner & Sohn certificate_of_authenticity wooden handle with horizontal etchings(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 tapering vertical pinback meeting a round