Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. A Military Merit Cross I Class GTRexclude scattered worn surfaces

scattered worn surfaces

but of typical French WWI period manufacture

The collar tabs are in gold bullion wire with red wool bases and machine sewn to the collars

Hamburg 11” on the reverse

A Heer Flak/Artillery Enlisted personnel strap

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. A Military Merit Cross I Class GTRexclude scattered worn surfaces(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