Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac PRAHA 11”

PRAHA 11”

later absorbing the 214th and 232nd Battalions on April 29

the reverse retaining an original black paper lining with the remnants of a sales label

the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey snake

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac PRAHA 11”(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 bearing 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. 18 mm (w) x 47.