Hesse, Grand Duchy. A Long Service Cross, I Class For 15 Years Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 72 mm x 75 mm

72 mm x 75 mm butting silvered die-stamped insignias underlying the brackets

Each chinstrap features additional leather crescent adornments with reverse slits

Cap Eagle with Cockade (gilt aluminum with a red and black painted metal cockade

including total deterioration of its binding and wear throughout

who served with the Luftwaffe Field Battalion (a probationary unit with a notoriously high casualty rate)

Hesse, Grand Duchy. A Long Service Cross, I Class For 15 Years Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 72 mm x 75 mm(Dienstauszeichnung I. Klasse fr 15 Jahre). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from a period original affixed to a trapezoidal bronze backplate with a horizontal pinback, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse bearing a raised central crown, the reverse bearing a raised central number 15 in Roman numerals, unmarked, measuring 37. 34 mm (w) x 42. 01 mm (h), in overall near extremely fine condition.