Lübeck, Free City. A Hanseatic Cross, C.1915 Archive both boards with reinforced white

both boards with reinforced white wool backers and held firmly in place by gilt aluminum buttons at one end and sewn in place at the opposite end

Official Army issue with period ribbon and broach

1916) / 603374" on the reverse and "GERMAN / DRIVING BAND" on the rim

April 1940)

measuring 95 mm x 88 mm

Lübeck, Free City. A Hanseatic Cross, C.1915 Archive both boards with reinforced white(Hanseatenkreuz). Instituted 21 August 1915. A straight armed cross paty with slightly concave ends to the arm, constructed of silver, the obverse arms are red enamel, the centre bears a Lubeck coat of arms in black, white and red enamel, the reverse centre bears the inscription Fr Verdienst im Kriege 1914 (For Merit in the War 1914), measuring 40. 10 mm (w) x 44 mm (h), with suspension ring on a metal backed white and red striped ribbon (faded), very