International. A Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order Of Saint John Of Jerusalem, Of Rhodes & Of Malta, Commander's Merit Cross, Cased United Republic of blue and brown enamels

blue and brown enamels

the reverse bearing a Berlin studio mark

RADwJ - Reichsarbeitsdienst der weibliche Jugend (Labor Service of the Reich for the Female Youth)

in solid 22k GOLD and enamels

for combatants

International. A Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order Of Saint John Of Jerusalem, Of Rhodes & Of Malta, Commander's Merit Cross, Cased United Republic of blue and brown enamels(Italian: Sovrano Militare Ordine Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme di Rodi e di Malta; Latin: Supremus Militaris Ordo Hospitalarius Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani Rhodiensis et Melitensis). Instituted in 1099. Four piece construction, in silvered zinc with red and white enamels, unmarked, obverse centrepiece illustrating a white Maltese cross, its centrepiece ring inscribed "MIL. ORDO EQUITUM MELIT. BENE MERENTI" (Well Meriting the Military