Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross II Class, with Austrian-Style Mount Buy Now with ARG (silver) stamped

with ARG (silver) stamped

with stylized initials “PH”

constructed of a paper binding with seven paginated pages supplemented by handwritten entries similarly dedicated to Sierke

1929 and arrived in New York on August 5

among other distinctions

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross II Class, with Austrian-Style Mount Buy Now with ARG (silver) stamped(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on a period replacement loop for suspension from an original tri fold 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