Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class Archive Officers’ Camp

Officers’ Camp

Prior to the First World War

Badge in fire gilded tombac

including a MILITAER-VEREIN ARNSDORF

with two neat folds

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class Archive Officers’ Camp(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 twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch,