Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross II Class, Maker Marked Example consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac whose media empire was the

whose media empire was the major commercial backer of the project with four staffers among the flight's nine passengers

double hallmarked on the ring and below the crown"FR" (Rothe) and with Gemsenkopf mark for 18Kt

with a stylized latticework band

with a two-piece screwback

Note the coarse pebbling in a circular pattern

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross II Class, Maker Marked Example consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac whose media empire was the(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, 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 three central oak leaves, the six oclock