A War Merit Cross Second Class With Swords With Its Matching Medal Ribbon Bar Auction Archive WWI Niagara Camp Sweetheart Pin

WWI Niagara Camp Sweetheart Pin - Silver gilt and multi-coloured enamels

32 mm x 90 mm

with its talons wrapped around the Olympic rings and the inscription "FACKEL-STAFFEL-LAUF OLYMPIA-BERLIN 1936" (Torch Relay Race Olympia-Berlin 1936) below

held in place via four intact prongs to a War Commemorative ribbon

engraved by the medallist Heinrich Mueller

A War Merit Cross Second Class With Swords With Its Matching Medal Ribbon Bar Auction Archive WWI Niagara Camp Sweetheart PinA Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse mit Schwertern; bronzed maltese cross; on loop for suspension (unmarked); with a period original ribbon; the obverse with crossed swords between the arms of the cross and a circular raised border of oak leaves on the obverse with a raised mobile swastika in the center; the reverse with a circular raised border of oak leaves bearing the institution date 1939 in raised numbering; measuring 47. 40 mm x 47. 49 mm; weighing