Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne certificate_of_authenticity 58 mm (w) x 9

58 mm (w) x 9

Footnote: Herbert Henry Harris

one Leading Private

Biddle & Banks had a contract with the United States for creating purple hearts between 1932 -1940

It has twenty-eight brass buttons

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne certificate_of_authenticity 58 mm (w) x 9(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 flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 43 for Julius Bauer & Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 47. 93 mm (w) x 47. 68 mm