Hamburg Hanseatenkreuz with Certificate

[jamie7d7]

Picked up this nice (although hole-punched) and original Certificate for the Hamburg Hanseatic Cross.

Not usually a certificate collector but a piece of 100 year old history in paperform? Yes please.

Cheers

Jamie

[bigmacglenn]

Nice Score there...The award document is for Lieutenant Richard Schwager, Commander of a Rear Area Support Column ...
cheers, Glenn

[Rakkasan187]

Jamie,

Very nice looking certificate, and to have an example of the medal with it is great. I would presume the holes on the side indicate that this was in a Soldiers personnel file at one time? I will have to ask my wife if she has any of her great-grandfathers certificates from WW1. At one time her mother had some in a box that she showed me nearly 30 years ago, so I will have to revisit our conversation..

Smitty

[HPL2008]

I would presume the holes on the side indicate that this was in a Soldiers personnel file at one time?

No. The award certificate was presented to the awardee, not put in his personnel file. Either the awardee kept it in a file folder or some later owner did at some point during the past 100 years.

[jamie7d7]

Smitty

Yeah the holes are either the Soldiers doing or, as I've been told was sometimes common in the 70s and 80s, people liked to keep items in binders. It's a mystery ha ha, it's done now anyway.

Cheers

[Chopperman]

Nice find. That certificate is much more rare than the award itself.