Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords And Case, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Auction An Honorary Membership Badge of

An Honorary Membership Badge of an Austrian Soldiers Association

surrounded by a red enamel ring inscribed AL MERITO SANITARIO

Victory Services and Phyllis Court (Henley-on-Thames)

re-written and re-formatted for clarity

The blade is plain with the exception of a maker’s mark on the obverse ricasso reading “F

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords And Case, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Auction An Honorary Membership Badge of(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swording 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 but demonstrating the physical characteristics of manufacture by Julius Bauer & Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 48. 06