Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class by Rothe, in Case, c.1915 certificate_of_authenticity but soon sold for scrap

but soon sold for scrap

the shield measuring 52 mm (w) x 62 mm (h)

A 1933 NSBO (Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellenorganisation/National Socialist Factory Cell Organization) “1

DUX HASSIAE INSTIT” (“INSTITUTED BY GRAND DUKE LUDWIG II OF HESSE)

with black corduroy backers

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class by Rothe, in Case, c.1915 certificate_of_authenticity but soon sold for scrap(Militrverdienstkreuz). Instituted on October 24th, 1849. Type II (1914 1918 Issue). A Military Merit Cross III Class, of multi piece construction, in silver with red and white enamels, consisting of a Cross Patte with red and white enamelled arms, with gilded laurel leaves in the quadrants between the arms of the cross, the obverse with a central white enamelled medallion inscribed with VERDIENST (Merit), the reverse with white enamelled arms and