Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Archive 5 mm (w) x 29

5 mm (w) x 29 mm (h)

some soiling

missing ribbon and ring

about seven o'clock in the evening

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Archive 5 mm (w) x 29(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 43 for Julius Bauer & Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 47. 93 mm (w) x 47. 68 mm