Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Julius Bauer & Söhne Auction Archive with a stack of books

with a stack of books and a Staff of Hermes at her feet

(Instituted 22 March 1922)

and dark grey wool reverse liner

An Early Combined Pilot Observer Badge by C

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Julius Bauer & Söhne Auction Archive with a stack of books(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 flattened and rounded catch emanating from a circular plate, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Julius Bauer & Shne,