Germany, Imperial. A Hamburg Hanseatic Cross GTRexclude 22 mm x 41 mm)

22 mm x 41 mm)

custody of the prisons and the guarding of significant government buildings

and preventing the enemy working round the flank

circumscribed by an inscription of “FÜR 25 JÄHRIGE DIENSTZEIT” (“FOR 25 YEARS’ SERVICE TIME”)

Germany, Imperial. A Hamburg Hanseatic Cross GTRexclude 22 mm x 41 mm)(Hanseatenkreuz Hamburg). Constructed of silvered copper with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse with red enameled arms, bearing a central red enameled disc overlaid by a silvered Hamburg coat of arms, the reverse bearing a central raised inscription of FR VERDIENST IM KRIEGE 1914 (FOR MERIT IN WAR 1914), unmarked, measuring 40. 26 mm (w) x 44. 00 mm (h), weighing