Germany, Third Reich. An Order of the German Eagle, II Class Merit Cross with Case, by Gebrüder Godet Province of China in silvered bronze and multi-coloured

in silvered bronze and multi-coloured enamels

Cross surrounded by laurel wreath

inscribed "KING'S PRIZE / GARRISON ARTILLERY / 1908" in the centre

Member of the various Commissions set up under the Treaties of Peace of 1919 for administering international rivers

the reverse maker marked “L/11” for “Wilhelm Deumer

Germany, Third Reich. An Order of the German Eagle, II Class Merit Cross with Case, by Gebrüder Godet Province of China in silvered bronze and multi-coloured(Verdienstorden vom Deutschen Adler Verdienstkreuz II. Klasse mit Etui). Instituted 1 May 1937. (1943 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with white enameled arms joined through the quadrants by NSDAP style German national eagles clutching wreathed mobile swastikas on white enameled discs, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a rounded catch, the pinback maker