Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross II Class with Swords, with Privately-Commissioned Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac one featuring a Wehrmacht Long

one featuring a Wehrmacht Long Service Award with Heer/Kriegsmarine device

an event considered symbolic of the beginning of the French Revolution

the obverse with an inscription of “ZUR ERINNERUNG AN DIE LORETTOHÖHE” (“IN MEMORY OF THE LORETTOHÖHE”)

with an intact horizontal pinback

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross II Class with Swords, with Privately-Commissioned Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac one featuring a Wehrmacht Long(Kriegsverdienstkreuz II. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, 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 bearing a central wreathed date of 1939, unmarked, measuring 49. 01 mm (w) x 49. 15 mm (h), weighing 19. 5 grams, accompanied by a period and privately