2) A Mecklenburg-Schwerin Military Merit Cross II Class
Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration
was instituted for all colonial railways except those of Indochina
The bright aluminum hilt fittings are nicely detailed
1918 for exemplary service in the field on August 11th
Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Alois Rettenmaier certificate_of_authenticity 2) A Mecklenburg-Schwerin Military Merit(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 59 for Alois Rettenmaier,