Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Julius Bauer & Söhne Auction Archive converted to a pinback badge

converted to a pinback badge

within blue enameled ring

1936-1939” (“IN THE FIGHT AGAINST BOLSHEVISM IN SPAIN

with silver buckle having gold pin

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Julius Bauer & Söhne Auction Archive converted to a pinback badge(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch emanating from a circular plate, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Julius Bauer & Shne,