WWI Mecklenburg-Schwerin War Cross 1st Class 1914 Germany RARE

Beautiful and rare World War I (1) Mecklenburg-Schwerin War Cross - 1st Class! Medal is in great condition for it's age! A Mecklenburg-Schwerin War Cross 1914 1st Class - in gilded bronze, vaulted, 41mm x 41mm, flat, of very good quality manufacture, unmarked, but typical cross by Zimmermann, fire gilded, in very fine condition; a very good example. TThe Military Merit Cross (Militärverdienstkreuz) was established by Friedrich Franz II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin on August 5, 1848. Mecklenburg-Schwerin, a grand duchy located in northern Germany, was a member of the German Confederation and later the German Empire.

This medal is from the esteemed collection of Allan Zakrzewski, WWI historian, member of Cross and Cockade International and Orders and Medals Society of America. He was also a Charter member of The League of World War One Aviation Historians. In 2001, he became an editor for Over the Front quarterly magazine and while a member of the Gulf Cost Chapter of the League of WWI Aviation Historians, he earned the Thornton D.

Hooper Award for Excellence for his article on Monoplane Fighters of World War I. In 2007, he received his second Thornton D. Hooper Award for An Evening with Rodney Williams, 17th Aero Squadron. Much of his collection is on display at the University of Texas at Dallas' Eugene McDermott Library.

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