Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Kerbach & Oesterhelt Buy Now and Verschiedene Damaszierungen (Miscellanious Damascenings

and Verschiedene Damaszierungen (Miscellanious Damascenings

The oval badge bears the initials “DRL” (“Deutscher Reichsbund für Leibesübungen”) intertwined with

4TH LINE BATT

for the French theatre on December 20

Includes: ten British-Issued medals: Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee of Her Reign Medal 1837-1897 (in silvered white metal

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Kerbach & Oesterhelt Buy Now and Verschiedene Damaszierungen (Miscellanious Damascenings(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 raised barrel hinge and flattened pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Kerbach & Oesterhelt, Dresden, measuring 48. 42 mm (w)