WW1. British manufactured propaganda iron cross. Mottled tone to reverse

Mottled tone to reverse

2 — P beside

ESC 1034 [554])

The BWM has an original ribbon

Minerva standing holding spear

WW1. British manufactured propaganda iron cross. Mottled tone to reverseObv. '1914 W HARTLEPOOLS SCARBORO WHITBY'. Rev RHEIMS LOUVAIN AMIENS 1914' around a cross and W These crosses were commercially produced propaganda pieces mimicking the configuration of the German Iron Cross but ironically adorned with the 'battle honours' of 'war atrocities' perpetrated by German forces during the First World War. Hartlepool, Scarborough and Whitby were bombarded by the German Navy on the 16 December 1914 with over 100 civilians