Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords And Case, By Deschler & Sohn Auction Archive 2 variation

2 variation

a house in the right foreground with storks nesting on the chimney

with “Die Heimat Dankt Den Tapferen Soldaten” (The Homeland Thanks The Brave Soldiers) and an outline of an Iron Cross 1939 First Class on the reverse

concave cross pattée with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords And Case, By Deschler & Sohn Auction Archive 2 variation(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and banjo style vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 1 for Deschler & Sohn, Munich, measuring 48. 55 mm (w) x 48. 39 mm (h), weighing