Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, One-Piece Screwback Version, Privately–Purchased Example certificate_of_authenticity trimmed with red piping (indicating

trimmed with red piping (indicating general issue)

totalling 208 days in hospital (almost 30 weeks) over the span of two years

Type II (1903-1921)

with Lord Robert's Message to the Troops on the inside front cover

surrounded by the inscription "DIVI PATRIS MONIMENENTVM INAVGVRATVM GRAECII" and dated "1841" below

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, One-Piece Screwback Version, Privately–Purchased Example certificate_of_authenticity trimmed with red piping (indicating(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse an Schraubscheibe Unmagnetisch). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of a blackened and silvered bronze alloy, consisting of a one piece vaulted Cross Patte, the obverse with black painted arms, 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 central threaded screwpost retaining an