Germany, Third Reich. A War Merit Cross, I Class Without Swords, By Karl Gschiermeister Newly Listed and amalgamated with the 14th

and amalgamated with the 14th

pointing downward to the takedown actuator

with tiny enamel flakes to white enamel

A mint 1944 NSRL/DRL (National Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise/Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen)

Germany, Third Reich. A War Merit Cross, I Class Without Swords, By Karl Gschiermeister Newly Listed and amalgamated with the 14th(Kriegsverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse ohne Schwerter). A Maltese Cross in silvered tombak, with angled notches in the end of each arm to produce an eight pointed cross, the edges of each arm flat and the field of each arm finely pebbled, the centre obverse features a circular wreath of oak leaves, the central field surrounded by this wreath bears a swastika, the reverse presents a vertical hinged pin, maker mark 50 designating Karl Gschiermeister of Vienna,