Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross, I Class Newly Listed with five aircraft engine pistons

with five aircraft engine pistons inside the wreath

but commissioned in December 1940 as HMCS Spikenard (K198) in the Royal Canadian Navy

An Austrian Silver Cross of Merit with Crown by W

the other is unmarked with dual push pins)

crazing and chipping evident in the white enamels

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross, I Class Newly Listed with five aircraft engine pistons(1914 Eisernes Kreuz I. Klasse). Reinstituted by Kaiser Wilhelm II 5 August 1914. (1914 1918 Issue). A 1914 Iron Cross Second Class, presenting as a Cross Pate of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed silver border, screw back version, the obverse with a raised central W, with the re institution date 1914 in raised numbering on the lower arm, and the royal crown on the upper arm, the reverse plain, unmarked,