Austria, Imperial. A 1902 International Blue Cross Society Vienna Exhibition Medal Auction An Iron Cross First Class

An Iron Cross First Class 1939 by Wilhelm Deumer -  Silver frame

silver gilt with orangy-red enamels

XI: An Old Billeting Area

Note: during this period and until "discovery" of white gold in early Twentieth Century as a rule diamonds were set in silver

This would enable new crews to go to sea with some new crew having had some earlier experience

Austria, Imperial. A 1902 International Blue Cross Society Vienna Exhibition Medal Auction An Iron Cross First Class(Blauen Kreuze Mitgliedsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, obverse with central blue enameled Latin Cross circumscribed by gold enameled inscription reading GESELLSCHAFT VOM BLAUEN KREUZE IN WIEN (SOCIETY OF THE BLUE CROSS IN VIENNA), reverse with central raised inscription of INTERNATIONALE AUSSTELLUNG DER HAUSFRAU WIEN, 1902 (INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF