Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class, With Award Document, To Unteroffizier Heinrich Gantert Auction Archive Measuring 207 mm (w) x

Measuring 207 mm (w) x 164 mm (h)

mid 20th century ribbon

constructed of multiple rows of silver aluminum wire

with the base and tip of each branch meeting the six and twelve o’clock arms

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class, With Award Document, To Unteroffizier Heinrich Gantert Auction Archive Measuring 207 mm (w) x(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 II. Klasse mit Verleihungsurkunde). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, 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 oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse