beech wood shield with a screwed cast metal badge applied. Badge shows two stylised aircraft with 3 skyward lightning bolts symbolising the anti-aircraft artillery above the unit number 4/38, This was possibly the Flakscheinwerfer-Abteilung 438 which was stationed around the district of Cologne protecting the airfields and city, Heavy item with single hole for wall mounting on reverse
4x2 inch matchbox, possibly handmade.
The photo on the lid is of Friedrich Wilhelm, Prinz von Preussen, taken around 1869/70. The grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm I., and son of Kronprinz Friedrich, and is the later Kaiser Wilhelm II. In this photo he is aged around 10/11 years old. Prinz Wilhelm (or Friedrich Wilhelm) was born on 27.I.1859 in Potsdam, Neues Palais. At the age of 10