Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit I Class, With Case And Stick Pin Miniature Newly Listed Naming on the Breast Badge

Naming on the Breast Badge is engraved on the reverse

and SA and SS personnel

with Austro-Hungarian Coat of Arms on the lid

Lieutenant

the bottom of the six o’clock arm is stamped with the letter S for metal content

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit I Class, With Case And Stick Pin Miniature Newly Listed Naming on the Breast Badge(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Etui und Anstecknadel). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by Deschler & Sohn, Munich, measuring 48. 42 mm (w) x 48. 54 mm (h), weighing 20. 5 grams, accompanied by a stick pin