A War Merit Cross First Class Without Swords By Austrian Maker Karl Schiermeister Auction Archive Footnote: Clarence Avondale Colling was

Footnote: Clarence Avondale Colling was born in Guelph Ontario in 1891 and was working as a carpenter before enlisting in April 1915

exhibiting cracking in the sweatband and light soiling overall

surrounded by the inscription "GEORGIVS II

with an all-Canadian eight man crew

A War Merit Cross First Class Without Swords By Austrian Maker Karl Schiermeister Auction Archive Footnote: Clarence Avondale Colling wasA Kriegsverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse ohne Schwertern; maltese cross in silvered tombak; the obverse pebbled, with a circular raised border of oak leaves on the obverse with a raised mobile swastika in the center; the reverse plain with a vertical slender banjo style pinback, a barrel hinge and a rounded catch; marked 50 for Karl Schiermeister of Vienna on the pin; measuring 48. 29 mm x 48. 59 mm; weighing 17. 0 grams; accompanied by its original case of