A First War & War Merit Cross Grouping
Prussia: Iron Cross 2nd Class 1914 (silver frame, with iron core, magnetic, maker marked "EW" (unknown) on the ring, 42.8 mm); Imperial: Hindenburg Cross for Combatants (iron with a bronze-coloured gilt, magnetic, unmarked, 37.3 mm); and Third Reich: War Merit Cross, 2nd Class with Swords (bronzed tombac, 48 mm). Mounted to a suspension with swing bar pinback, as worn by the veteran, original ribbons, crossed bronze swords on the HC ribbon, surface rust evident on the IC, near extremely fine.