✚ WW1 German Iron Cross 2nd Class Lug Marked WG W/ Parade Style Ribbon (4320) For Sale

WW1 German Iron Cross 2nd Class Lug Marked (the smallest ring attached to the medal itself) WG W/ Parade Style Ribbon

Iron Cross is of 3 Part Construction with 2 Silver Frames with Magnetic Iron Core

WG is the mark for the famous maker Wagner of Belin

This is an Original Wartime-issued Iron Cross

This cross has deep black felt backing ,pin and clasp are tight but can be opened with light age brass tarnish on pin. Beautiful Original Iron cross dressed nicely Parade Style.

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Information on the Iron Cross Medal:Emperor Wilhelm II reauthorized the Iron Cross on 5 August 1914, at the start of World War 1. During these three periods, the Iron Cross was an award of the Kingdom of Prussia, although—given Prussia\'s pre-eminent place in the German Empire formed in 1871—it tended to be treated as a generic German decoration. The 1813, 1870, and 1914 Iron Crosses had three grades:

• Iron Cross 2nd Class (Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse, or EKII)
• Iron Cross 1st Class (Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse, or EKI)
• Grand Cross of the Iron Cross (Großkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes, often simplyGroßkreuz)

• Although theobverseof the medals of each class was identical, the manner in which each was worn differed. The Iron Cross 1st Class employed a pin or screw posts on the back of themedal andwas worn on the left side of the recipient\'s uniform, like the original 1813 version. The Iron Cross 2nd Class, and the larger Grand Cross, were suspended from different ribbons: the Grand Cross from a neck ribbon, the 2nd Class from a ribbon on the chest. The usual display of the 2nd Class version was as a ribbon through one of thebuttonholesin the recipient\'s tunic.

  The Grand Cross was intended for senior generals of thePrussianor (later) the German Army. An even higher decoration, theStar of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross(also called theBlücher Star), was awarded only twice, toGeneralfeldmarchall Gebhard Leberecht Von Blucherin 1813 and 1918. A third award was planned for the most successful German general during WorldWar II butwas not made after the defeat of Germany in 1945.

  The Iron Cross 1st Class and the Iron Cross 2nd Class were awarded without regard to rank. One had to possess the 2nd Class already in order to receive the 1st Class

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