Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross Ii Class With Swords Auction Archive Mayflower Rifles

Mayflower Rifles

hand-engraved with Japanese characters on either side of the pin on the reverse

A 1934 Rheinisches Landesturnfest Bad Aachen badge

engraved "Hoskins" instead of "Hosking"

in silvered bronze and red and black enamels

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross Ii Class With Swords Auction Archive Mayflower Rifles(Kriegsverdienstkreuz II. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms, the obverse with a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a central wreathed date of 1939, unmarked, measuring 47. 42 mm (w) x 48. 58 mm (h), in near extremely fine condition.