Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Silver, by Wächtler & Lange consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac number 148614

number 148614

The throat is held together by dual side rivets

the obverse bearing wreathed dates of “1914-1918”

Constructed of Luftwaffe blue-grey wool

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Silver, by Wächtler & Lange consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac number 148614(Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker I. Klasse in Silber). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant starburst, bearing a central raised rosette situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from an oblong plate, the reverse of the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei