Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class To Leutnant Ernst Schaller Auction Archive WWI 26th Infantry Battalion Cap

WWI 26th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge CEF - Pickled copper

with a South African gold half pond coin of 1894 fitted to the front

38 mm (w) x 84

in black LDO case

Footnote: A total of 763 of the Order of the Zähringer Lion

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class To Leutnant Ernst Schaller Auction Archive WWI 26th Infantry Battalion Cap(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, 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 day of 1914, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with a screw meeting a backplate and nut, inscribed with a recipients name of Ltn.