the reverse offers a single long screwpost
" (Philadelphia) and marked "PAT
The tress is still covered with tan paper stitched into place using very thin string
holding a laurel wreath with a soldier to the right holding a helmet and a rifle
Braunschweig, Duchy. A Pair of War Merit Crosses, I and II Class GTRexclude the reverse offers a single(Kriegsverdienstkreuze). A pair of Braunschweig War Merit Crosses, including: 1 A II Class Cross, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse bearing a central raised monogram of Duke Ernst August, flanked by oak leaf clusters, topped by a royal crown, and situated above a date of 1914, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR VERDIENST IM KRIEGE (FOR MERIT IN WAR),