A First War Iron Cross 1914 & Fatherland Matchbox Cover Auction Archive around the age of 14

around the age of 14

A Syrian Order of Merit

with a green felt underside

and with U-Boot Day armband

Yorkshire on May 12

A First War Iron Cross 1914 & Fatherland Matchbox Cover Auction Archive around the age of 14A First War (Imperial) German matchbox cover; in field gray stamped sheet metal (magnetic); with Mit Herz und Hand frs Vaterland, 1914, 1915, 1916, Hindenburg, Moltke, Kaiser printed on it with black lettering; two piece construction with crimps; with one of the sides partially cut out to allow the fingers to slide the matchbox out of the cover once empty, and to strike the match on the igniter strip; with a cut out on the bottom to push out the