Both the mask and manuel are concealed within an original box of issue
each of which features the post 1947 design "snarling/angry lions"
the top of the badge bears the inscription ZWEI JAHRE (TWO YEARS) and the base IM FELD 1914-1916 (IN THE FIELD 1914-1916)
thirty bodies were never recovered
which is secured to the cap with machine stitching
Germany, Third Reich. A Medal Bar for First and Second World War Service Auction Archive Both the mask and manuel(Ordensschnalle). A medal bar for First and Second World War service, featuring five decorations, including: 1. A 1914 Iron Cross II Class, constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension with its original Third Reich period ribbon, consisting of a 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