Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, Brass Core Variant by Wilhelm Deumer, c. 1930 Hold Corps and Miscellaneous Badges

Corps and Miscellaneous Badges

5 mm (h - inclusive of its crown and laterally-pierced ball suspension)

and would go on to become an SS-Obergruppenführer in 1941

brass name plate below the wreath inscribed "Brig

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, Brass Core Variant by Wilhelm Deumer, c. 1930 Hold Corps and Miscellaneous Badges(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of brass and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened brass 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 crimped hinge and narrow pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but