Braunschweig, Duchy. A Pair of War Merit Crosses, I and II Class consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac especially Emperor Franz Joseph

especially Emperor Franz Joseph

pinned with a Heer/Kriegsmarine device

Gold with red and green enamels

"A fine example of a 1914-1918 issue Albrecht Order Commander’s Cross Breast Star with Swords (Albrechtsorden Burststern zum Komturkreuz mit Schwertern)

Yixuan's desire to please Cixi was such that he did not even stop work on the Summer Palace to relieve the victims of the floods that hit Beijing

Braunschweig, Duchy. A Pair of War Merit Crosses, I and II Class consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac especially Emperor Franz Joseph(Kriegsverdienstkreuze). A pair of Braunschweig War Merit Crosses, including: 1 A II Class Cross, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse bearing a central raised monogram of Duke Ernst August, flanked by oak leaf clusters, topped by a royal crown, and situated above a date of 1914, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR VERDIENST IM KRIEGE (FOR MERIT IN WAR),