Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Steinhauer & Lück Newly Listed Blazing away with their 6-pounders

Blazing away with their 6-pounders

The order's motto is "Honneur et Patrie" ("Honour and Fatherland") and its seat is the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur next to the Musée d'Orsay

the other on the right breast lined in gray cotton

the Landesgruppenleiter (Group Leader)

measuring 52 mm (w) x 62 mm (h) (without backer)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Steinhauer & Lück Newly Listed Blazing away with their 6-pounders(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered feinzink, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, with crossed swords through the centerpiece, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round integrated catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 4 for Steinhauer & Lck, Ldenscheid, measuring 49. 30 mm (w) x 48. 80 mm (h), weighing