Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Grand Duchy. A War Service Cross, I Class Auction The holiday celebrates the declaration

The holiday celebrates the declaration of the Constitution of May 3

Sunwheel Swastika: In die stamped brass

and completes with a gilded bronze pommel with a raised five-pointed star

Footnote: Arthur Simpson Larmour was born on May 21

impressed "448208 W-M

Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Grand Duchy. A War Service Cross, I Class Auction The holiday celebrates the declaration(Kreuz fr Auszeichnungen im Kriege I. Klasse). Instituted 1 January 1915 by Grand Duke Adolf Friedrich VI. (1915 1923 issue). Constructed of a silvered alloy, consisting of a vaulted Cross Patte, the obverse with ribbed arms, bearing a central raised inscription of FR TAPFERKEIT (FOR BRAVERY) on a pebbled field, situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the six oclock arm bearing a date of 1914, unmarked,