An Austrian Silver Cross of Merit with Crown by W
A 1914 Mecklenburg-Schwerin Military Merit Cross - Bronze gilt
but commissioned in December 1940 as HMCS Spikenard (K198) in the Royal Canadian Navy
A Weimar-era veterans sleeve patch depicting the Nordmark regional coat of arms and Frisian-language motto “lewer dod as slov” (“better dead than a slave”)
crazing and chipping evident in the white enamels
Germany, Imperial. A 1914 Iron Cross, I Class Newly Listed An Austrian Silver Cross of(1914 Eisernes Kreuz I. Klasse). Reinstituted by Kaiser Wilhelm II 5 August 1914. (1914 1918 Issue). A 1914 Iron Cross Second Class, presenting as a Cross Pate of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed silver border, screw back version, the obverse with a raised central W, with the re institution date 1914 in raised numbering on the lower arm, and the royal crown on the upper arm, the reverse plain, unmarked,