Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Grand Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1955 Republic of Entries include hand-writing in black

Entries include hand-writing in black ink and signatures by a “SS

operating in the English Channel and the coastal waters of the North Sea

Suspended from a bar with dual push pins

1914 in Waldsee (southern Germany)

Footnote: Willi Hein was born on April 26

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Grand Cross of the Iron Cross, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1955 Republic of Entries include hand-writing in black(Grokreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes 1914, Museumsstck). 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 date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm with an royal crown, the reverse with three central oak leaves, the six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the twelve oclock arm with initials FW