Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. A Military Merit Cross Newly Listed Constructed of olive-green BeVo-style machine

Constructed of olive-green BeVo-style machine embroidery in the shape of a Wehrmacht-style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

with rank strip in golden trees below

the son of Charlotte McNaughton and the late David McNaughton

DEUMER LÜDENSCHEID" on the reverse

In die pressed silvered tombac

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. A Military Merit Cross Newly Listed Constructed of olive-green BeVo-style machine(Militrverdienstkreuz). A gilded bronze cross patte, the obverse centre presents the initials FF for Friedrich Franz, with the imperial crown on the twelve oclock arm, the date 1870 on the six oclock arm, the reverse presents the inscription FR AUSZEICHNUNG IM KRIEG (FOR AWARD IN THE WAR), measuring 40. 49 mm (w) x 40. 35 mm (h), on loop for suspension from period original non combatant ribbon, and in near very fine condition.