Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case, By Julius Bauer Söhne Auction Archive on suspension from period original

on suspension from period original dark-blue ribbon with a yellow stripe towards each edge

1939 at Winnipeg

measuring 63 mm (w) x 120 mm (h)

5 mm (w) x 158 mm (h) x 40 mm (h)

The reverse ricasso bears the maker’s logo of Ernst Pack & Söhne

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case, By Julius Bauer Söhne Auction Archive on suspension from period original(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 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 48. 08 mm (w) x 47.