Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. A Military Merit Cross I Class Newly Listed Congress on 9 July 1918

Congress on 9 July 1918

constructed of slate-grey paper stock

25th Anniversary of the Foundation of the National Organization of Christian Solidarity

580 A” stamped on both sides of the triple slotted disc

Commemorative Medal 1898 "Signum Memoriae"

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. A Military Merit Cross I Class Newly Listed Congress on 9 July 1918(Militrverdienstkreuz 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 pebbled and ribbed arms, bearing a central monogram of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV, topped by a crown and situated above a date of 1914, the reverse with an elongated block hinge and vertical pinback meeting a rounded catch, unmarked, measuring 41. 05 mm (w) x