Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, Silver Merit Medal, By The Prussian Mint Auction Archive Bronze gilt with light blue

Bronze gilt with light blue enamels

the frame has come apart

35 mm x 37

(1939 Eisernes Kreuz

and is commemorated on page 178 of the First World War Book of Remembrance

Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, Silver Merit Medal, By The Prussian Mint Auction Archive Bronze gilt with light blue(Orden vom Deutschen Adler, Verdienstmedaille in Silber). Instituted 1 May 1937. (1937 1943 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and with each quadrant joined by a NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of DEUTSCHE VERDIENSTMEDAILLE (GERMAN MERIT