Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Klein & Quenzer Hold LLATH SCHROBENHAUSEN SILBER"

LLATH SCHROBENHAUSEN SILBER"

interspersed with edelweiss

based at Abu Sueir Airfield

has a thin green cardboard binding with a cover displaying a Wehrmacht eagle with spread wings and a mobile swastika

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Klein & Quenzer Hold LLATH SCHROBENHAUSEN SILBER"(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered zink, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with an integral hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a rounded catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 65 for Klein & Quenzer, Idar Oberstein, measuring 47. 48 mm (w) x 47. 48