Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Grand Duchy. A War Service Cross, I Class Auction Archive faded stamp on the white

faded stamp on the white paper backer

Unique badge

the interior parts in terrific shape

along with paint loss and scuff marks

Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Grand Duchy. A War Service Cross, I Class Auction Archive faded stamp on the white(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,