Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version By Paul Maybauer certificate_of_authenticity in machine woven white rayon

in machine woven white rayon threads on black rayon base

with a center applique consisting of a nickel-plated roundel featuring a SA/early SS belt buckle motif superimposed on gilded sun rays

7 mm (h) inclusive of its laterally-pierced ball suspension)

supported by the 20th Light Division and Second Army siege and howitzer battery groups

He is commemorated on page 554 of the First World War Book of Remembrance

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version By Paul Maybauer certificate_of_authenticity in machine woven white rayon(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a vaulted 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 central threaded lug retaining a period original silver Cross Patte