Germany - Imperial: Stick pin medal pin for a First World War veteran and recipient of the Iron Cross 1914 2nd Class, the Hamburg Hanseatic Cross, the Honour Cross 1914-1918 with Swords, and the Wound Badge 1914 in Black. First two in enamelled form.
Condition: slight loss to paintwork on last, Good Very Fine.
Each of the three ancient Hanseatic Cities – Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck – issued a cross of similar design in the First World War, differing only in the arms on the central medallion of the face, that for Hamburg, the Hamburg Hanseatic Cross being instituted on 10th September 1915. Hamburg suffered 40,000 casualties during the war, from a total population of 800,000. The Cross was suppressed at the end of 1918.
