Germany, Imperial. An Iron Cross 1914 Regimental Flag Pole Finial visually-hidden before being amalgamated in 1960

before being amalgamated in 1960 with the Northamptonshire Regiment to form the 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire)

The Grenzübertrittsausweis (Rot) für Angehörige des deutschen Wehrmachtgefolges (border crossing certificate (red) for members of the Wehrmacht retinue) is dated to Agram (Zagreb

likely French

71mm (w) x 79

on a green embroidered base

Germany, Imperial. An Iron Cross 1914 Regimental Flag Pole Finial visually-hidden before being amalgamated in 1960(Fahnenmast Endstck). Constructed of silvered bronze, consisting of a teardrop shaped frame surrounding a circular laurel and oak leaf wreath, with a threaded screw post emanating from the bottom, inset with a central 1914 Iron Cross II Class, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed and silvered frame, the obverse with a central initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1914, the twelve oclock