Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. A Military Merit Cross, I Class Auction weighing 389 grams and measuring

weighing 389 grams and measuring 870 mm in length

It is said that Sister Pia was sometimes difficult even with these guards

For his extensive services

СЕНТАБРА 1782” (“22 SEPTEMBER 1782”)

in 1890 and launched Germany on a bellicose "New Course" in foreign affairs that culminated in his support for Austria-Hungary in the crisis of July 1914 that led to World War I

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. A Military Merit Cross, I Class Auction weighing 389 grams and measuring(Militr Verdienstkreuz 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 ribbed arms, with a central monogram of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV, the six oclock arm with a date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked,