and with a dark green wool buffer pad covering the seam
providing input on the rebuilding of its armed forces
followed by an elaborate handwritten inscription to Bismarck on the occasion of his 75th birthday
the second button hole from the top with ribbons for the Iron Cross 2nd Class and the East Medal fed through it and sewn in place at either end
On February 24th
Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Awards for Military and Civil Service Newly Listed and with a dark green(Auszeichnungen). A mixed lot of awards for military and civil service, including: 1. A War Merit Medal, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon,the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR KRIEGSVERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 28 mm in diameter, weighing 12. 9 grams, in near mint