Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case Newly Listed 15 mm (w) x 60

15 mm (w) x 60

surrounded by a ring inscribed PATRIAE AC HUMANITATI

Type IV (1893-1928)

unstitched and measuring 100 mm (w) x 345 mm (l)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case Newly Listed 15 mm (w) x 60(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 48. 67 mm (w) x 48. 72 mm (h), weighing 24. 1 grams, accompanied by its period original