Braunschweig, Duchy. A Pair of War Merit Crosses, I and II Class Auction Archive 1 grams (inclsuive of ribbon)

1 grams (inclsuive of ribbon)

employing armed police

Constructed of four doubled-up silver aluminum bullion wires wound around an off-white fabric core in a U-shape

one of their parachutes failed to open

5 cm (w) x 27 cm (h) (inclusive of figure)

Braunschweig, Duchy. A Pair of War Merit Crosses, I and II Class Auction Archive 1 grams (inclsuive of ribbon)(Kriegsverdienstkreuze). A pair of Braunschweig War Merit Crosses, including: 1 A II Class Cross, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse bearing a central raised monogram of Duke Ernst August, flanked by oak leaf clusters, topped by a royal crown, and situated above a date of 1914, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR VERDIENST IM KRIEGE (FOR MERIT IN WAR),