Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, Privately-Purchased Example Auction Archive The German Youth Order (Jungdeutscher

The German Youth Order (Jungdeutscher Orden) was the youth element of the Stahlhelm

(CHARLES THOMAS COWELL)

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the text below the picture as a Detachment Commander in the SS Panzer Division “Das Reich

constructed of off-white machine embroidery in the shape of a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika in its talons

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class, Privately-Purchased Example Auction Archive The German Youth Order (Jungdeutscher(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a vaulted 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 vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch,