Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, Screw Back Version Auction Archive that there was "some enlargement

that there was "some enlargement of the leg" and that Shaw "says it interferes with his walking and is unable to do any work that requires walking or standing long"

chattered fabric backer

A Prussian Observer’s Badge

(C17)       Footnote: In 1918

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, Screw Back Version Auction Archive that there was "some enlargement(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse). 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 initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1914, the reverse with a central threaded lug retaining a period original backplate wnt nut, the twelve oclock arm stamped with a silver