Germany, Wehmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class with Swords and Case, by Wilhelm Deumer Auction Archive A very fine quality manufacture

A very fine quality manufacture single NSDAP Reichs/Gau/Kreis Level Obereinsatzleiter collar tab

Dated to Saalfeld/Saale on August 30

// Yours is the face of one / Far older than you

a green exterior with silk and velvet medal bed

remaining there for the next fourteen months

Germany, Wehmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class with Swords and Case, by Wilhelm Deumer Auction Archive A very fine quality manufacture(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered zink, consisting of a Cross Patte with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hing and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 3 for Wilhelm Deumer, Ldenscheid, measuring 47. 30 mm (w) x 47. 00 grams, weighing 18. 0 grams,