Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, by Wilhelm Deumer visually-hidden Stirndruckfrei Deutsches Reichspatent” and a

Stirndruckfrei Deutsches Reichspatent” and a typed owner’s name of “Mähr

Schwarz participated in the failed Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923

Before seeing action in Korea

With a German greeting

thereby making this cross a luxury type from during or directly after the First World War

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, by Wilhelm Deumer visually-hidden Stirndruckfrei Deutsches Reichspatent” and a(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepece, the obverse with pebbled arms, bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Wilhelm Deumer, Ldenscheid, measuring 48. 27 mm (w) x 48. 27 mm (h),