Germany, Imperial. A Bremen Hanseatic Cross Auction Archive with gilt bronze and red

with gilt bronze and red

with some of the original silvering still remaining

part of the First Carlist War

circumscribed by dates “19

consisting of an eight-pointed radiant star with a double-overlaid sunburst pattern

Germany, Imperial. A Bremen Hanseatic Cross Auction Archive with gilt bronze and red(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 39. 72 mm (w) x 43. 86 mm (h), 19. 7 grams, in better than very fine condition.