A First War Iron Cross 1914 & Fatherland Matchbox Cover Newly Listed Philippine Insurrection Medal 1899

Philippine Insurrection Medal 1899

Fritz Eitel was also the recipient of the scarce Coburg Badge (photocopy of the award document comes with the grouping)

marked “13” on the loop

now age 41

The Summer of 1917 was a busy one for Gibson

A First War Iron Cross 1914 & Fatherland Matchbox Cover Newly Listed Philippine Insurrection Medal 1899A 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