German Awards - Merit Cross 2. Class Anhalt Land Warriors Association

The Angolan Union of Warriors was founded in 1883, since 1921 it was called the Angolan Union of Land Warriors (ALKV) and established merit crosses in 3 stages. The special tier was a gilded and enameled neck cross with an inscription at the back and larger than the silver-plated 2nd class by about 1 mm. 1st class was a stuffed cross without an inscription at the back. Shown here 2. The class was silver-plated with a back inscription and worn on a ribbon. The 1st Class Anhalt Warrior Union Meritorious Service Cross was awarded for distinguished service to the Warrior Union. As a manufacturer, the court engraver Alexander Vollram from Dessau is known. The address of the metalwork factory was Wallstr. 13/14 in Dessau. The Anhalt Land Warriors Union, as a member of the Kiefhauser Union, had 164 clubs with 12,517 members.
Due to the size of the country, such crosses are very rare.

Silver-plated non-ferrous metal cross. Cruciform shoulders with a wide smooth silver-plated border. The inside of the front side is enameled with light yellow. Silver-plated rays come out between the cruciform shoulders (5 each). Front and rear with a large round central shield. On the upper cruciform shoulder is a transverse decorated ear with a small ring and a belt ring.

Front side:

• Central shield with a smooth silver border.
In
• a surrounded field: in the center is a silver wall with teeth, along which there is a silver Angaltian bear.
• The silver bear goes from right to left. The background is enameled in red.
In the
• lower green enameled part there is a black cross (Iron Cross) and 2 ornaments.

Downside:

• The finely divided silver insides of the cross sleeves bear the inscription:
• Top: - AHH. - References: - COUNTRY. - Right: - WAR. - Bottom: - VERB. –
• Central shield with smooth raised silver border.
• In a nested fine-grained field, 5-line font:
• - For -/- Merit -/- (less) in -/- Union of Warriors -/- Essence -

Tape:

30 mm, red central stripe 18 mm, white/green side stripes 3 mm each.

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