Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Deschler & Sohn Republic of with its original cornflower blue

with its original cornflower blue ribbon and a horizontal pinback

1915 and qualified in Signalling

the reverse with an identification number of “3347”

and Legionnaire

1) The eagle in silvered bronze

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Deschler & Sohn Republic of with its original cornflower blue(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 and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 1 for Deschler & Sohn, Munich, measuring 48. 58 mm (w) x 48. 02 mm (h),