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489th Field Artillery (silvered bronze with red and blue enamels

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, by Kerbach & Österhelt Hold 489th Field Artillery (silvered bronze(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 tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 62 for Kerbach & sterhelt, Dresden, measuring 48. 38 mm (w) x 48.