Saxe-Meiningen, Duchy. A Silver Merit Cross For Art And Science, Prototype Example certificate_of_authenticity the 1914 Iron Cross II

the 1914 Iron Cross II Class

Hamburg Hanseatic War Cross 1914 - In silvered bronze and enamels

in golden-yellow machine embroidery depicting a sawfish

Florida in April 1928

and Bomber Command Museum

Saxe-Meiningen, Duchy. A Silver Merit Cross For Art And Science, Prototype Example certificate_of_authenticity the 1914 Iron Cross II(Silbernes Verdienstkreuz fr Kunst und Wissenschaft, Prototyp). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with a central rightward facing profile of Duke Georg of Saxe Meiningen, circumscribed by name and title, the reverse with an inscription of DEM VERDIENST (FOR MERIT), within an oak leaf wreath, with a stylized wreath through the quadrants, unmarked, measuring 36. 17