Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Breast Star Of The Grand Cross To The Iron Cross, Museum Exhibition Example Auction Archive marked "SPECIAL SERVICE MEDAL /

marked "SPECIAL SERVICE MEDAL / MEDAILLE DU SERVICE SPECIAL" on the lid)

00 mm in diameter on the interior - suitable for a small to medium sized finger

with soiling evident on the white cotton pockets

measuring 156 mm in diameter

Prior to that time the SS units wore the SA design buckle

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Breast Star Of The Grand Cross To The Iron Cross, Museum Exhibition Example Auction Archive marked "SPECIAL SERVICE MEDAL /(Grokreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes 1914 Bruststern, Museumsstck). A high quality museum exhibition example of a 1914 Breast Star of the Grand Cross to the Iron Cross, the obverse consisting of a gilded bronze eight pointed radiant star, overlaid by a central 1914 Iron Cross consisting of a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, with a central initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm with a