Germany, Imperial. A Hamburg Hanseatic Cross, with Case, to Otto Hartmann Archive and France: War Cross 1939

and France: War Cross 1939 with Bronze Palm (bronze

printed in four-colors inks on an off-white paper stock

48 mm x 67 mm

gymnasts on balance beams

Germany, Imperial. A Hamburg Hanseatic Cross, with Case, to Otto Hartmann Archive and France: War Cross 1939(Hanseatenkreuz Hamburg mit Etui). Constructed of silvered copper with 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 medallion 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. 16 mm (w) x 44. 08 mm (h), weighing 19.