Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case Auction Archive with the word Afrika in

with the word Afrika in a block script

1865 (as of "E" Company

“Der lustige Schimmel” by Julius Paul Junghanns

numbered "19468" on the edge

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case Auction Archive with the word Afrika in(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 bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 48. 67 mm (w) x 48. 72 mm (h), weighing 24. 1 grams, accompanied by its period original