Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class, With Award Document consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and outer cartonage

and outer cartonage

1917 and was named Acting Corporal with pay on April 10

measuring 36 mm x 56 mm inclusive of its multi-interlocking ring suspension

Footnote: Württemberg Merit Cross with Swords is fairly scarce

and a 1939 Iron Cross

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class, With Award Document consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and outer cartonage(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 formerly stitched into a parade mount, 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