Oldenburg, Grand Duchy. A Friedrich August Cross, I Class GTRexclude missing its chain link tool

missing its chain link tool for the insertion and extraction of the bore brushes and with minor age-appropriate oxidation evident

into which is stitched a loop of like material for hanging the trousers on a hook when not in use

in early January 1917

thus making the stampings difficult to decipher

looting or burning of towns

Oldenburg, Grand Duchy. A Friedrich August Cross, I Class GTRexclude missing its chain link tool(Friedrich August Kreuz I. Klasse). Instituted 24 September 1914 by Grand Duke Friedrich August. (1914 1918). Constructed of blackened magnetic iron, consisting of a Cross Patte with its arms joined through the quadrants by a circular laurel leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a central raised monogram of Grand Duke Friedrich August, the six oclock arm bearing an institution date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm bearing a royal crown, the reverse with an