Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case Auction Yeoman of Signals

Yeoman of Signals

issued on 23 May 1939

200 in Essen

golden and red threads

minor soiling and creasing

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case Auction Yeoman of Signals(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 a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 48. 09 mm (w) x 47. 62 mm (h), weighing 22. 9 grams, accompanied by its period original presentation case,