Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne GTRexclude 1940 to October 12

1940 to October 12

The chain is marked at the clasp with “GOREL 10K”

and graduated Harbord Collegiate in 1908

Wandern”) in Berlin in the Gau/Gross territory

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne GTRexclude 1940 to October 12(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 flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 43 for Julius Bauer & Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 47. 93 mm (w) x 47. 68 mm