Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. A Military Merit Cross, I Class Newly Listed four with vertical pinbacks

four with vertical pinbacks

leaving the Totenkopf’s prongs to hold it in place

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Lincoln & Welland Regiment (red embroidered lettering on blue felt

with owner's name hand scratched on reverse

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. A Military Merit Cross, I Class Newly Listed four with vertical pinbacks(Militr Verdienstkreuz I. Klasse). Instituted 28 February 1915 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV. (1915 1924 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse with ribbed arms, bearing a central monogram of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV, ths six oclock arm bearing a date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with a block hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 40.