Germany, Imperial. A Hanseatic Cross, Bremen Issue Auction This particular belt with buckle

This particular belt with buckle is illustrated in black and white on page 519 and in colour on page 646 of "Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich

Lieutenant Wagner met some members of a Partisan Organisation

on a horizontally pieced ball and loop for suspension

Klasse” and “Nur vom Bellehenen zu öffnen” (“Only for the Recipient to open”)

540 mm (shoulder to cuff)

Germany, Imperial. A Hanseatic Cross, Bremen Issue Auction This particular belt with buckle(Hanseatenkreuz Bremen). Instituted 1915. (1915 1918 issue). 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, with a red enameled centrepiece bearing a silvered Bremen coat of arms, the reverse bearing a central raised inscription of FR VERDIENST IM KRIEGE 1914 (FOR MERIT IN WAR 1914), unmarked, measuring 41. 06 mm (w) x