Germany, Imperial. An Embroidered Iron Cross, I Class Buy Now with a bronze gilt coat

with a bronze gilt coat of arms on the blue

pinned with a central bronze pip

as well as missing its dust jacket

with 38 pages of color plates inserted between pages 1 and 16

obverse illustrating Kaiser Wilhelm II on horseback with Army soldiers and townspeople in the foreground

Germany, Imperial. An Embroidered Iron Cross, I Class Buy Now with a bronze gilt coatOf very fine quality with black cotton arms, the outer edges trimmed in white cotton cord, magnetic silvered and blackened iron insignia incorporating the crown, the "W" (Wilhelm) cypher and the date "1914" independently attached via black threading, white cotton backer with a maker's mark stamped in blue ink in the centre, measuring 38 mm x 38. 3 mm, scattered wear patches in black cotton on the arms, near extremely fine. Scarce.