Braunschweig, Duchy. A Pair of War Merit Crosses, I and II Class consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 29mm (w) x 53

29mm (w) x 53

Yixuan's desire to please Cixi was such that he did not even stop work on the Summer Palace to relieve the victims of the floods that hit Beijing

and a Prussian Long Service Award

Gold with red and green enamels

Braunschweig, Duchy. A Pair of War Merit Crosses, I and II Class consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 29mm (w) x 53(Kriegsverdienstkreuze). A pair of Braunschweig War Merit Crosses, including: 1 A II Class Cross, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse bearing a central raised monogram of Duke Ernst August, flanked by oak leaf clusters, topped by a royal crown, and situated above a date of 1914, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR VERDIENST IM KRIEGE (FOR MERIT IN WAR),