A Imperial German Battle Of The Somme Commemorative Cross certificate_of_authenticity including Private Mayes

including Private Mayes

oxidation mark in the "O" on the obverse

mid 1800’s period manufacture

protecting a right-facing rifleman in a trench below

forming a loop above and tied in a knot below the seal

A Imperial German Battle Of The Somme Commemorative Cross certificate_of_authenticity including Private MayesA Imperial German Battle of the Somme Commemorative Cross (Weimarer Republik, Somme Kreuz), 1914 1918; two piece construction alloy with gilt edged black and orange enamels; the obverse a Maltese shaped cross with a central gilt edged black enamel medallion inscribed in gilt with Somme, 1914 1918; the reverse plain; maker marked Fleck & Sohn, Hamburg 3 and Ges. Gesch (for gesetzlich geschtzt = legally protected, i. e. a registered design) on reverse;