Anhalt, Duchy. A Friedrich Cross Auction Organization badge

Organization badge

including a Prussian Red Cross 40-Year Honour Badge

measuring 29 cm (w) x 42

26 mm x 30

each illustrating plum blossoms

Anhalt, Duchy. A Friedrich Cross Auction Organization badge(Friedrich Kreuz). Instituted 12 December 1914 by Duke Friedrich II. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse bearing a wreathed monogram of Duke Friedrich II, topped by a crown and situated above a date of 1914, the reverse bearing an inscription of FR VERDIENST IM KRIEGE (FOR MERIT IN WAR), unmarked, measuring 37. 26 mm (w) x 42. 24 mm (h), weighing 10.