Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class With Award Document To Musketeer Erich Liebig United Republic of on its original Army ribbon

on its original Army ribbon with pinback

the body of the book has started to come apart from the spine

Black Grade - Blackened iron

Footnote: 90405 Private Samuel George Gibson was the son of Thomas and Louisa Alberta Gibson of Johannesburg

a sword runs horizontally through the centre of the badge and bears a swastika on the cross guard

Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross I Class With Award Document To Musketeer Erich Liebig United Republic of on its original Army ribbonA 1914 Iron Cross, I Class, (Eisernes Kreuz 1914 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 5 August 1914. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened 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 is plain and bears a banjo style vertical pinback and round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 42. 52