Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Kerbach & Oesterhelt United Republic of totalling twenty-three pages

totalling twenty-three pages

Class Silver

nordic mysticism of Austria

with the reverse side featuring the firm’s guarantee of quality

interior lid stained on right side

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Kerbach & Oesterhelt United Republic of totalling twenty-three pages(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the latter consisting of a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and early issue flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Kerbach & Oesterhelt,