Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case Archive entitled to wear the Honorable

entitled to wear the Honorable Service Lapel Button (AKA Honorable Service Lapel Pin)

by Decree of 2

VERBANDSWETTFAHRT” (I ASSOCIATION RACE”) and “SEGELABTLG

Banks & Biddle manufacture) on the reverse of the banner

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case Archive entitled to wear the Honorable(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, bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 47. 94 mm (w) x 47. 65 mm (h), weighing 22. 9 grams, accompanied by its original presentation