Germany, Imperial. An Award Document For A 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class Hold bearing four bands of silver

bearing four bands of silver aluminum wire piping interspersed with black and red threading

secured together with two visible magnetic metal rivets

surrounded by the inscription “GOTT MIT UNS” (German - God with us) on the top half

but displaying the typical manufacturing characteristics of Friedrich Linden of Lüdenscheid

Germany, Imperial. An Award Document For A 1914 Iron Cross Ii Class Hold bearing four bands of silver(Verleihungsurkunde fr Eisernes Kreuz 1914 II. Klasse). Constructed of off white paper with black ink, named to recipient HANN on 25 November 1919, issued at Kiel and featuring an early Reichswehr stamp for Bezirkskommando Kiel, issued as a catch up document for a belated wartime decoration or as a rare example of an Iron Cross distributed for Freikorps service, measuring 210 mm (w) x 158 mm (h), with minor fatigue and creasing evident, in very fine