Germany, Imperial. A Cased 1914 Iron Cross I Class In Case Newly Listed also called the Berlin Bear

also called the Berlin Bear

forty-three with screwbacks

Footnote: Charles Saggers was born on October 9

a golden Maltese cross with four arms in blue enamels

Provenance: This set of goggles were worn and used by Canadian Royal Flying Corps Pilot Gerald Alfred Learn

Germany, Imperial. A Cased 1914 Iron Cross I Class In Case Newly Listed also called the Berlin Bear(Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of silver and iron, consisting of a Cross Patte with a magnetic blackened 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 maker marked KO, with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire