Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class certificate_of_authenticity and National Defence Cross 1940

and National Defence Cross 1940 (silvered bronze

Badge: in bronze gilt with red and navy blue enamels

on loop for suspension from its period original parade-mounted ribbon with a dark green wool liner and horizontal pinback

in Gold with red

one depicting U-3 at sea

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class certificate_of_authenticity and National Defence Cross 1940(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 bearing 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 block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire