Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, Screwback Version, by C.E. Juncker Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic engraver marked "W CHRISTESEN"

engraver marked "W CHRISTESEN"

WOODS" above a rifleman lying on his stomach

the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey inscription of “WEST HESSEN-NASSAU”

measuring 211x148mm

Soldier's Cross (likely from the Carlist War period) Die-stamped silver

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, Screwback Version, by C.E. Juncker Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic engraver marked "W CHRISTESEN"(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui, an Schraubscheibe). 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 central threaded screw post retaining an original matching backplate, with a short stabilizer emanating from the twelve oclock arm, the six oclock arm maker marked with LDO code L