Germany, Imperial. A Jerusalem Cross, c. 1930 Hold and Order of Agricultural Merit

and Order of Agricultural Merit (silver gilt and enamels

When he was expelled from Mühlheim

reverse inscribed “FÜR TREUES WIRKEN IN EISERNER ZEIT 1915” inside an ornate wreath with hearts placed at the top and bottom

Type I (1918-1939) (in silver with red

edged by light green (hellgrün) Waffenfarbe piping

Germany, Imperial. A Jerusalem Cross, c. 1930 Hold and Order of Agricultural Merit(Jerusalem Erinnerungskreuz). Instituted 31 October 1898 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1898 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Jerusalem Cross with dark red enameled arms, with each arm joined through the quadrants by identical enameled crosses, the obverse overlaid by a central ribbed and gilded medallion bearing a raised monogram of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the reverse