Germany, Imperial. An Iron Cross 1914 Regimental Flag Pole Finial visually-hidden The cover of the book

The cover of the book exhibits pinching on the corners

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)

likely French

Cap Badge: in browning copper

Germany, Imperial. An Iron Cross 1914 Regimental Flag Pole Finial visually-hidden The cover of the book(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