Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Archive catch is bent over but

catch is bent over but remains in its socket

Signed by Hermann Engelking on February 25th

on a bluish-gray Luftwaffe wool backer

for Richard Simm & Söhne of Gablonz

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Archive catch is bent over but(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.