Germany, Imperial. A Bremen Hanseatic Cross GTRexclude French War Cross

French War Cross

a matching central rosette)

measuring 18 mm in diameter)

and Coastal Artillery NCO/Enlisted cap eagle

but typical WWI period French Bertrand manufacture

Germany, Imperial. A Bremen Hanseatic Cross GTRexclude French War Cross(Hanseatenkreuz). Constructed of silvered bronze with enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse with red enameled arms, with a red enameled centrepiece bearing a silvered coat of arms of the city of Bremen, the reverse with a central inscription of FR VERDIENST IM KRIEGE 1914 (FOR MERIT IN WAR 1914), measuring 40. 21 mm (w) x 44. 01 mm (h), weighing 19. 9 grams, in better than very fine