A War Merit Cross First Class With Swords By Julius Bauer & Söhne Hold Scarce in tombac

Scarce in tombac

Money accompanied the coffin of Queen Victoria in her funeral procession in 1901

but they had not gone far before the Germans led by an officer came to meet them with their hands up

silver gilt crown with gilt having been lost overtime

Major in 1903

A War Merit Cross First Class With Swords By Julius Bauer & Söhne Hold Scarce in tombacA Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse mit Schwertern; maltese cross in silvered tombak; the obverse pebbled, with a circular raised border of oak leaves with a raised mobile swastika in the center; the reverse plain, with a barrel hinge, a tapered vertical pin, and a slightly rounded catch; maker marked 43 for Julius Bauer & Shne, Zella Mehlis on the pin; measuring 47. 73 mm x 47. 84 mm; weighing 23. 0 grams; in mint condition.