The cap features a cardboard-stiffened visor
maker marked “Gesetzlich Geschützt” and maker marked “Steinhauer & Lück
centering flat wire lettering
7 mm silvered aluminum shield displaying the Wehrmacht eagle above a shield fronted by crossed swords
This Feldwebel who was a frontline soldier was killed in Russia
Prussia, Kingdom. An Order Of The Red Eagle, Ii Class, By Johann Wagner & Söhne, C.1880 certificate_of_authenticity The cap features a cardboard-stiffened(Roter Adler Orden Kreuz 2. Klasse). Instituted 12 June 1792. Type IV. (1854 1918 Issue). A gilded silver cross patte with white enamelled arms, the obverse centre presents a white enamelled medallion depicting a Brandenburg crowned eagle, the reverse centre engraved with a crowned cipher of King Friedrich Wilhelm III, hand etched letter W on bottom of six oclock arm for maker Johann Wagner & Shne, Berlin, measuring 47. 39 mm (w) x 547. 27 mm (h), on