Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class, With Award Document, To Unteroffizier Heinrich Gantert Auction Archive inscribed ""WAR WITH GERMANY"" above

inscribed ""WAR WITH GERMANY"" above and ""1917-1919"" below

Topics: Meeting in Kirschhausen 1974

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

1944 by Feldpost Nummer 52371

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 inscribed ""WAR WITH GERMANY"" above(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