Germany, Freikorps. A Freiwilliges Landesschützenkorps Cap Badge Hold mounted to a wight-pointed star

mounted to a wight-pointed star base

the name could be Fick or Frick

the reverse featuring a double-looped ring which retains a period original neck ribbon

and include some running marks to the blade and loosening of the hilt not mitigated by tightening the screw

he enlisted into Imperial Army after the outbreak of the First World War

Germany, Freikorps. A Freiwilliges Landesschützenkorps Cap Badge Hold mounted to a wight-pointed star(Freiwilliges Landesschtzenkorps Mtzenabzeichen). Constructed of gilded brass, the obverse consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, interspersed with acorns and joined together at the bottom by ribbon, affixed with all intact reverse attachment prongs to a period field grey liner, unmarked, the badge measuring 45 mm (w) x 40 mm (h), a scarce example of a variant examined in Katalog der Uniformabzeichen der deutschen Freikorps by Ingo G. Haarcke,