Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. A Military Service Cross, Ii Class, C.1914 Archive USS Yankee and USS Marblehead

USS Yankee and USS Marblehead covered her activities by engaging the Spanish gunboats Alvarado and Sandoval

In silvered die stamped iron (magnetic)

Anti-Communist Campaign Medal 1941

maker marked with Imperial German silver hallmarks and maker mark of the official maker “HJ (Hermann Jürgens Hof Juwelier

Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription "HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. A Military Service Cross, Ii Class, C.1914 Archive USS Yankee and USS Marblehead(Militr Verdienstkreuz II. Klasse). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period correct replacement ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with ribbed arms, the obverse with central initials FF, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the six oclock arm with a date of 1914, the reverse with inscription FR VERDIENST IM KRIEGE (FOR SERVICE IN WAR), unmarked, measuring 41. 07 mm (w) x 45. 25 mm (h), in near extremely fine