Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class visually-hidden off-white Luftwaffe-style eagle clutching a

off-white Luftwaffe-style eagle clutching a mobile swastika

2nd Infantry Battalion "Eastern Ontario Regiment" Cap Badge (two-piece construction

An excellent untouched example in bronze

the reverse exterior with a maker’s mark of “FERDINAND HOFFSTÄTTER

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class visually-hidden off-white Luftwaffe-style eagle clutching a(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 date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch,