Prussia, Kingdom. A Military Honour Decoration, II Class in Zink consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Korea (Imperial)

Korea (Imperial)

After a five year absence and with the Second World War in progress

with a replacement brown plastic button placed in the last position

followed by an Historical Precis

Prussia, Kingdom. A Military Honour Decoration, II Class in Zink consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Korea (Imperial)(Militr Ehrenzeichen II. Klasse in Zink). Instituted 27 February 1864 by King Wilhelm I. (1864 1918 issue; 1916 1918 issue in zink). Constructed of silvered zink, on loop for suspension form its period original tri fold ribbon, the obverse bearing a central raised inscription of KRIEGS VERDIENST (WAR MERIT), situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the reverse bearing a raised monogram of King Wilhelm I,