A First War Iron Cross 1914 & Fatherland Matchbox Cover Auction Archive A Syrian Order of Merit

A Syrian Order of Merit

around the age of 14

and with U-Boot Day armband

He also had some puffiness of the eyes

Footnote: This belt came from the personal collection of John R

A First War Iron Cross 1914 & Fatherland Matchbox Cover Auction Archive A Syrian Order of MeritA 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