Prussia, State. A Grand Cross Of The Iron Cross 1870 Flag Box Appliqué GTRexclude 7 mm x 70 mm

7 mm x 70 mm

96th Infantry Division

capturing eight prisoners and two machine guns

British War and Victory Medals (55813 SJT

Pforzheim - RZM M9/7” on the reverse

Prussia, State. A Grand Cross Of The Iron Cross 1870 Flag Box Appliqué GTRexclude 7 mm x 70 mmThis is an interesting and certainly unique piece a Prussian Grand Cross of the Iron Cross 1870 (Grokreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes 1870) to be fastened onto the box in which the Prussian flag was stored. It is in the shape of a silver cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border; the obverse with a raised central W, with the original institution date 1870 in raised numbering on the lower arm, and the