Germany, Imperial. A Rare 1870 Iron Cross II Class for Non-Combatants, with 25th Jubilee Clasp Republic of Danninger worked as a bookkeeper

Danninger worked as a bookkeeper in  a coal mine

Footnote: The Georg Thiele was a destroyer built for the Kriegsmarine in the mid 1930’s

among the latter a few Wehrmacht officers

The 1935 edition of the race was cancelled

Germany, Imperial. A Rare 1870 Iron Cross II Class for Non-Combatants, with 25th Jubilee Clasp Republic of Danninger worked as a bookkeeper(Eisernes Kreuz 1870 II. Klasse fr Nichtkmpfer mit Jubilumsspange). Reinstituted 19 July 1870 by King Wilhelm I. (1870 1871 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1870, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with three central oak leaves, the six oclock arm