VINTAGE & RARE WW1 BRITISH MADE PROPAGANDA IRON CROSS MEDAL FIRST WORLD WAR

Description

Offered is an original British-made First World War ‘propaganda’ Iron Cross.

Features a 46mm x 40mm, crudely cast, black metal cross, the observe showing ‘FUR KULTUR’, with a ribbon loop.

These interesting period made British ‘Iron Crosses’, were crudely cast medals, sold for charity very early in the war.  The Iron Cross was a German military decoration and was used ironically as propaganda to mock the Germans. There were many versions but most carry the names of places where civilians died as a result of German actions in 1914-15 – both in France and Belgium, as well as general taunts and hints at war atrocities. They are rarely seen for sale, with many of them being scrapped for the war effort during WW2.