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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hamburger, post: 4005516, member: 17940&quot;]I also just looked this up -- and was amused to find that in Germany it&#039;s often called <i>fer de Berlin</i>. Nothing like a foreign language to up the selling price.</p><p><br /></p><p>Exchanging gold for iron to support the war effort was seen as a noble thing to do. As well as the sometimes beautifully made iron items from the 18th and 19th centuries, Wikipedia&#039;s German pages have this (later and ugly) pin aimed at expat Germans in America:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Eisernes_Kreuz_%281914%29.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>and even an iron wedding ring marked &quot;I gave gold for iron&quot; in German:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/3/3f/Weddingring.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Yet more stuff to look out for if they ever open the shops again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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