The one-piece nickel silver hilt features a double-sided eagle’s head pommel
Footnote: The Battalion was raised in the provinces of New Brunswick
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Footnote: The Order of Saint Stanislaus was a Polish order of knighthood founded in 1765 by King Stanisław August Poniatowski of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
incorporating a repeating intricate hexagon pattern on the exterior
Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot Of Decorations Auction The one-piece nickel silver hilt(Auszeichnungen). A mixed lot of five decorations, including: 1. A War Merit Medal, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing an inscription of FR KRIEGS VERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 40 mm in diameter, weighing 12. 9 grams, in near mint condition. 2. A War Merit