Austria, Empire. A Military Merit Cross. Second Class With Swords And War Decoration, By V. Mayer Archive dark green and brown embroidery

dark green and brown embroidery at the mid-point

dual pinbacks

shortly before the end of the war

with tan coloured buckram frames

1) A 1942 Polizei membership pin

Austria, Empire. A Military Merit Cross. Second Class With Swords And War Decoration, By V. Mayer Archive dark green and brown embroidery(Militrverdienstkreuz, II. Klasse, mit Schwertern, und Kriegsdekoration). A silver cross pattee with red and white enameled arms, with a green enameled laurel wreath and short silver swords between the arms of the cross; the obverse with a central white enameled medallion inscribed VERDIENST (German Merit); the reverse fully enameled in white; on a double loop for suspension marked VM and with a Dianas head silver mark, as well a Vienna silver Assay